Corporate Performance, Board Structure and its Determinants in the Banking Industry

By Renée B. Adams, Hamid Mehran. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Finance

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Citations in the corpus

• Gender Diversity on European Banks’ Boards of Directors (2011, unknown): “widely used measures of bank profitability (Staikouras et al. 2007; Adams and Mehran 2008), since it examines the returns generated from a bank’s assets.”
• Corporate governance in the 2007–2008 financial crisis: Evidence from financial institutions worldwide (2012, unknown): “literature suggests that board size is associated with board independence and operating complexity (Adams and Mehran, 2011; Linck et al., 2009).”
• The Agency Problem, Corporate Governance, and the Asymmetrical Behavior of Selling, General, and Administrative Costs (2012, unknown): “Some studies find that firms with larger boards perform better (e.g., Adams and Mehran 2005), but the majority of prior studies find evidence favoring smaller boards (e.g., Yermack 1996).”
• The causal effect of board size in the performance of small and medium-sized firms (2008, background): “Other studies of large US firms provide evidence that the board size effect depends on the organizational form; Adams and Mehran (2005) find a positive board size effect for US banking firms whereas Coles et al. (forthcoming) show that the negative board size effect does not hold for firms with comp”
• The impact of board size on firm performance: evidence from the UK (2009, unknown): “…studies have attempted to overcome these problems by employing instrumental variable techniques (Eisenberg et al., 1998; Postma et al., 2003; Adams and Mehran, 2005; de Andres et al., 2005; Beiner et al., 2006; and Bennedsen et al., 2008), and as shown in Table 1, the results suggest that…”
• Corporate Governance in Banking: The Role of the Board of Directors (2008, unknown): “To date, there are many studies on corporate governance, yet only a few papers focus on banks’ corporate governance (e.g., Adams and Mehran, 2005; Caprio et al., 2007; Levine, 2004; Macey and O’Hara, 2003), even though the key aspects of corporate governance can be applied to banks.”