Who's minding the store? Motivating and monitoring hired managers at small, closely held commercial banks

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1209-1243

  Deyoung, Robert ^a   Spong, Kenneth ^b   Sullivan, Richard J ^b  

^a Research Department   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial banks; Corporate governance; G21; G34; Principal agent problems; Profit efficiency; Small businesses

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000250771     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4266(00)00127-8     Document Type: Article

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