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Corporate Governance, Risk Management, and Bank Performance in the GCC Banking Sector

Ehab Elbahar
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The article was published on 2016-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Corporate governance & Risk management.

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Corporate Governance and Performance of BankingFirms: Evidence from Asian Emerging Markets.

Samad F.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the corporate governance of listed banking firms in nine Asian emerging markets and found that there are differences in the monitoring mechanisms of banking firms and non-bank firms.
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Introduction to multivariate analysis, by C. Chatfield and A. J. Collins. Pp 246. £13 hardcover, £7·50 paperback. 1980. ISBN 0-412-16030-7/4 (Chapman and Hall)

TL;DR: In this paper, the multivariate normal distribution is used for principal component analysis and multivariate analysis of covariance and related topics, as well as multi-dimensional scaling and cluster analysis.
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Corporate Governance, Regulation and Bank Risk-Taking Behaviour in Developing Asian Countries

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the influence of corporate governance and regulations on bank risk-taking behavior and found sufficient evidence that corporate governance mechanism has strong effect on the level of risk taken by bank: bank with large owner(s) is associated with higher risk taking, while board size is negatively related to bank risk level.
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TL;DR: Turnover announcements are associated with significantly positive average abnormal stock returns, which are in turn significantly positively related to subsequent changes in accounting measures of performance as mentioned in this paper, suggesting that investors view turnover announcements as good news presaging performance improvements.
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The Relationship between Capital and Earnings in Banking.

TL;DR: Acharya et al. as mentioned in this paper showed that a higher CAR is associated with a lower after-tax return on equity (ROE), and that the relationship between CAR and ROE holds both cross-sectionally and over time, holds when lags are included, and becomes even stronger when an extensive set of control variables is added to the regressions.