CEO power, equity incentives, and bank risk taking

Banking and Finance Review

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 105-120

  Victoravich, Lisa Marie ^a   Xu, Pisun ^a   Buslepp, William ^b   Grove, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Banks risk taking; CEO power; Equity compensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860005974     PISSN: 19477945     EISSN: 19476140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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