Bank Risk Governance

111 Pages Posted: 16 Mar 2023 Last revised: 12 Sep 2023

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Dietmar Leisen

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz - Department of Banking

Peter L. Swan

University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney; Financial Research Network (FIRN)

Date Written: September 11, 2023

Abstract

Recent regulations of risk governance call for more outsiders on bank boards. We study how these affect bank risk taking and board monitoring (CEO turnover) for 723 U.S. bank holding companies (BHC) from 2000 to 2019. Outsiders improve risk governance (decrease risk taking, increase risk monitoring) for regulatory risk measures but worsen risk governance for economic risk measures, seemingly a win-win for both. However, while regulatory risk measures appear as a useful policy tool, economic risk measures predict bank failure and so outsiders worsen risk governance. We attribute the worsening risk governance to disadvantages in information processing by outsiders.

Keywords: Risk governance, outside directors, monitoring quality, subprime crisis, risk taking, risk oversight

JEL Classification: G21, G32, G34

Suggested Citation

Leisen, Dietmar P. J. and Swan, Peter Lawrence, Bank Risk Governance (September 11, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4385351 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4385351

Dietmar P. J. Leisen (Contact Author)

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Peter Lawrence Swan

University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney ( email )

School of Banking and Finance
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