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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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Islamic banks’ profitability in an interest rate cycle

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how Islamic banks manage to smooth their profitability, measured by their ROE, by using the principle of profit and loss sharing between stakeholders taking part in a risky economic activity.
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Female directors in bank boardrooms and their influence on performance and risk-taking ☆

TL;DR: In this article, the role of women in bank boardrooms in a sample of 461 large banks from OECD countries was assessed and found that the presence and percentage of female directors in boardrooms have a positive influence on performance.
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Audit Committee Characteristics and Financial Misstatement: A Study of the Efficacy of Certain Blue Ribbon Committee Recommendations

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of certain audit committee characteristics identified by the Blue Ribbon Committee on Improving the Effectiveness of Corporate Audit Committees (BRC) on the likelihood of financial misstatement was examined.
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A Reappraisal of State-Owned Banks

TL;DR: This article revisited the public banks debate, survey the theoretical arguments and test the robustness (and expand) the existing empirical evidence, finding some support for the view that public banks do not allocate credit optimally, but also report indicative evidence that they exert a positive influence on private bank efficiency, and may contribute to reduce credit procyclicality.
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Bank Ownership and Performance in the Middle East and North Africa Region

TL;DR: In this paper, a bank-level panel dataset for the period 2001-08 was used to assess the role of ownership and bank performance in MENA while accounting for key bank characteristics such as size and balance sheet composition.