JEL Classification C12; C23; G21; G32. The only way to ensure a well-informed response to bank risks is by ensuring transparent disclosures that flourish with potential synergy. This study investigates the impact of bank disclosures on credit risk where panel data are used. PCSE and FGLS regression models are applied to a sample of 32 commercial banks in Bangladesh from 2010 to 2014. The result...

Available online 7 April 2011 Purposes: To determine if perceived risk of criminal victimization, and past criminal victimization experiences, increases the likelihood of a person owning a gun for self-protection, and to determine if defects in past research concerning the way gun ownership was measured had obscured such effects. Methods: We analyzed data on over 2,500 U.S. adults, using differ...

We study the factors that induce asset managers to hold both equity and bond positions in the same company (“twin ownership”), as well as the corporate finance implications of such a joint ownmership for the firms they hold. We show that twin ownership is determined by a tradeoff between the benefits of information acquisition and greater monitoring/enforcing that an equity stake confers to a b...

BACKGROUND Asthma is a heterogeneous condition and differential effects of pet ownership on non-atopic versus atopic asthma have been reported. The aim of this study was to investigate whether pet ownership during pregnancy and early childhood was associated with wheezing from birth to age 7 years and with lung function at age 8 years in a UK population-based birth cohort. METHODS Data from t...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect board ownership on risk-taking. uses a sample 31 Kenyan banks and data for 2008-2018. finds that has significantly negative In addition, results indicate firm age, size, bank capitalization positively affect Thus, both managerial policy implications.

This paper analyses the effect of family ownership and characteristics board directors on risk assumed by Spanish non-financial companies. The sample consists 176 companies listed stock exchanges during period 2012–2015. results show that level concentration affects exposure to non-linearly confirms importance in risk-taking.

The overall aim of this study is to empirically investigate the cost structure of a management agreement type agri-environmental instrument and to identify factors for cost variation over space and time. We control for the actual level of compliance by using compliance weighted average scheme cost ratios. Beside technological and economic performance measures, we also incorporate risk proxies. ...

This study tests two opposing views of institutional investors—monitoring versus expropriation--by investigating whether institutional ownership is positively or negatively related to future firm-specific stock price crash risk. We present robust evidence that institutional ownership is positively associated with future stock price crash risk. After further classifying institutional investors i...