Does board structure in banks really affect their performance?

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1573-1589

  Pathan, Shams ^a   Faff, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bank holding companies; Board independence; Board structure; Endogeneity; Gender diversity; Sarbanes Oxley Act; System GMM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875077527     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2012.12.016     Document Type: Article

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