...Fatma Ahmed; Basil Al-Najjar Purpose The purpose of the paper is to examine the political connection and foreign directorship of the board of directors of the Bahraini banks on the risk between 2015 and 2019 exploiting the GCC diplomatic crisis as an exogenous shock. Design/methodology/approach...

...Peterson K. Ozili; Thankom G. Arun Purpose Managers are concerned about how the macroeconomic environment affects business profit. Focusing on banks, this study aims to investigate the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on bank profitability in 22 advanced countries. Design/methodology...

...Thomas Walker; Yixin Xu; Dieter Gramlich; Yunfei Zhao Purpose This paper explores the effect of natural disasters on the profitability and solvency of US banks. Design/methodology/approach Employing a sample of 187 large-scale natural disasters that occurred in the United States between 2000...

...Guoping Liu; Jerry Sun Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine whether independent directors' financial expertise affects the use of private information in setting bank chief executive officer (CEO) bonuses. Design/methodology/approach The association between future firm performance...

...Peterson K. Ozili Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine bank loan loss provisioning behavior during election years – focusing on the effect of elections on banking sector loan loss provisioning. Design/methodology/approach Regression analysis was used to analyze the behavior of bank...

...Ioannis Tampakoudis; Michail Nerantzidis; Demetres Subeniotis; Apostolos Soutsas; Nikolaos Kiosses Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the wealth implications of bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the unique Greek setting given the triple crisis phenomenon – banking...

... of US bank holding companies (BHCs) during 2002-2014. Findings Results show that BHCs with more concentrated shareholders, more managerial ownership, smaller boards, and less outside directors undertake less risky investments with respect to total assets, loans, and off-balance-sheet items. Capital...

... overstatement by banks in emerging market economies undergoing financial crises. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on the theory of soft budget constraints (SBC) to construct a simple model in which banks overstate loans to minimize losses. The model is used to illustrate how guarantees...

...Barry Williams; Laurie Prather Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact on bank risk of portfolio diversification between traditional margin income and fee‐based income for banks operating in Australia. Design/methodology/approach Considering several performance variables...

..., the research proceeds to an evaluative phase, in which an analysis is undertaken of real data sets (comprising 1,262 applicants), provided by the commercial public sector banks in Egypt. Two types of neural nets are used, and correspondingly two types of conventional techniques are applied. The use of two...

...Elizabeth Webb Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the extent of stock repurchase and measures of corporate governance. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of stock repurchase announcements by banks after the 2002 tax reform, the paper uses an event...