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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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Non-Monetary Effects of the Financial Crisis in the Propagation of the Great Depression

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Boards: Does one size fit all?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relation between firm value and board structure and found that complex firms, which have greater advising requirements than simple firms, have larger boards with more outside directors, and this relation is driven by the number of outside directors.
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A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960

TL;DR: The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly achievement -monumental in its sheer bulk, monumental in definitiveness of its treatment of innumerable issues, large and small... monumental, above all, in the theoretical and statistical effort and ingenuity that have been brought to bear on the solution of complex and subtle economic issues as discussed by the authors.