Performance of family-controlled banks: do political connections matter?

Political Communication and Financial Performance in Banks: Opportunity or Threat

 Political relationships can have both a positive and a negative impact on bank performance, which requires an empirical analysis to identify its impact. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between political communication and financial performance of banks accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange and OTC. In this study, in order to test the research hypothesis,...

Why Do Government Banks Perform Worse? —A Political Interference View

This study proposes a political interference hypothesis to explain how political considerations depress government banks performance. In here, we define the political interference as the situation in which the executives of government banks are replaced within 12 months after the presidential elections. We classify government banks into political and non-political banks when the government bank...


 
 Family 
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Evaluating the Efficiency of Commercial Banks: Does Our View of What Banks Do Matter?

En the past 15 years, the banking industry has faced growing competition from other lii financial service firms and financial markers and, at the same time, has undergone subsnannial deregulation and change. Proponents of further deregulation, such as the removal of barriers no nhe commingling of commercial and investment banking, argue that such changes would enhance the eff’mciency and viabil...

Crisis performance of European banks – does management ownership matter?

Failure in bank corporate governance has been seen as a contributing factor to excessive risk-taking pre-crisis with devastating implications as risks realised during the financial crisis. Unfortunately, the empirical evidence on the impact of managerial incentives on bank crisis performance is scarce. Moreover, bank strategy has not previously been accounted for. Hence, this paper presents nov...