Board composition, monitoring and credit risk: evidence from the UK banking industry

Jia Lu; Agyenim Boateng

doi:10.1007/s11156-017-0698-x

Board composition, monitoring and credit risk: evidence from the UK banking industry

Jia Lu, Agyenim Boateng^*

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Abstract

This paper examines the effects of board composition and monitoring on the credit risk in the UK banking sector. The study finds CEO duality, pay and board independence to have a positive and significant effect on credit risk of the UK banks. However, board size and women on board have a negative and significant influence on credit risk. Further analysis using sub-samples divided into pre-financial crisis, during the financial crisis and post crisis reinforce the robustness of our findings. Overall, the paper sheds light on the effectiveness of the within-firm monitoring arrangement, particularly, the effects of CEO power and board independence on credit risk decisions thereby contributing to the agency theory.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1107-1128
Number of pages	22
Journal	Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
Volume	51
Early online date	28 Dec 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-017-0698-x
Publication status	Published - Nov 2018

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credit risk
UK banking industry
corporate governance
board composition
monitoring
banks

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