The impact of management and board ownership on profitability in banks with different strategies |
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Authors: | Hanna Westman |
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Affiliation: | HANKEN School of Economics, Department of Finance and Statistics, Helsinki, Finland;Bank of Finland, Financial Stability and Statistics Department, Helsinki, Finland |
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Abstract: | In this study I combine the ownership and diversification literature and show that the agency problem varies across traditional, diversified and non-traditional banks. In a sample of European banks, I find that management ownership has a positive impact on profitability in non-traditional banks, whereas board ownership has a positive impact on profitability in traditional banks. These findings indicate that management ownership is important in opaque banks, which are difficult to monitor, whereas board ownership is important in banks where the government guaranteed safety-net reduces the monitoring incentive of depositors, but which are not too complex or opaque for the board to monitor. |
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Keywords: | JEL classification: G2 G32 G34 L25 |
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