Bank governance, regulation, supervision, and risk reporting:evidence from operational risk disclosures in European banks

Barakat, Ahmed and Hussainey, Khaled (2013) Bank governance, regulation, supervision, and risk reporting:evidence from operational risk disclosures in European banks. International Review of Financial Analysis, 30. pp. 254-273.

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Abstract

This paper investigates the direct and joint effects of bank governance, regulation, and supervision on the quality of risk reporting in the banking industry, as proxied for by operational risk disclosure (ORD) quality in European banks. After controlling for the endogeneity between bank stability and risk reporting quality, we find that banks having a higher proportion of outside board directors, lower executive ownership, concentrated outside non-governmental ownership, and more active audit committee, and operating under regulations promoting bank competition (i.e., less stringent entry to banking requirements) provide ORD of higher quality. In addition, we find that the contribution of bank supervisors to the enhancement of ORD quality depends on the ownership structure of the bank. Specifically, powerful and independent bank supervisors mitigate the incentives for entrenched bank executives to withhold voluntary ORD. Moreover, bank supervisors and largest shareholders perform substitutive roles in monitoring the bank management's compliance with mandatory ORD requirements. For the sake of enhancing risk reporting quality in banks, our findings recommend sustaining board independence, enhancing audit committee activity, easing entry to banking requirements, and promoting a more proactive role for bank supervisors.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
International Review of Financial Analysis
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000/2002
Subjects:
?? BANK REGULATION AND SUPERVISIONBASEL II (PILLAR 3)CORPORATE GOVERNANCEEUROPEAN BANKSOPERATIONAL RISK DISCLOSUREFINANCEECONOMICS AND ECONOMETRICS ??
ID Code:
71151
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Deposited On:
08 Oct 2014 09:05
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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20 Sep 2023 00:32