Bank Risk Taking Behaviour In Malaysia: Role Of Board And Ownership Structure

This paper examines the role of board structure and ownership concentration on bank risktaking of public listed commercial banks in Malaysia from 2001 to 2012. The study focuses on the bank-risk taking behaviour after the major bank consolidation in Malaysia in year 2000. Using two-market model to...

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Main Authors: Loh, Linda, Chan , Sok Gee
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Published: Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2017
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spelling my.usm.eprints.40151 http://eprints.usm.my/40151/ Bank Risk Taking Behaviour In Malaysia: Role Of Board And Ownership Structure Loh, Linda Chan , Sok Gee HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management This paper examines the role of board structure and ownership concentration on bank risktaking of public listed commercial banks in Malaysia from 2001 to 2012. The study focuses on the bank-risk taking behaviour after the major bank consolidation in Malaysia in year 2000. Using two-market model to estimate the risk of the commercial banks in Malaysia, the results suggest that higher ownership concentration and larger board size resulted in higher bank risk-taking of the listed commercial banks in Malaysia. Given that the board structure is an important element of bank risk-taking, regulators should continue to enhance the monitoring of banks (where board size is large and ownership concentration is high) to control the banks’ potential for excessive risk taking Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/40151/1/aamjaf13022017_1.pdf Loh, Linda and Chan , Sok Gee (2017) Bank Risk Taking Behaviour In Malaysia: Role Of Board And Ownership Structure. Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance, 13 (2). pp. 1-26. ISSN 1823-4992 http://web.usm.my/journal/aamjaf/aamjaf13022017/aamjaf13022017_1.pdf
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topic HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management
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Loh, Linda
Chan , Sok Gee
Bank Risk Taking Behaviour In Malaysia: Role Of Board And Ownership Structure
description This paper examines the role of board structure and ownership concentration on bank risktaking of public listed commercial banks in Malaysia from 2001 to 2012. The study focuses on the bank-risk taking behaviour after the major bank consolidation in Malaysia in year 2000. Using two-market model to estimate the risk of the commercial banks in Malaysia, the results suggest that higher ownership concentration and larger board size resulted in higher bank risk-taking of the listed commercial banks in Malaysia. Given that the board structure is an important element of bank risk-taking, regulators should continue to enhance the monitoring of banks (where board size is large and ownership concentration is high) to control the banks’ potential for excessive risk taking
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author Loh, Linda
Chan , Sok Gee
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Chan , Sok Gee
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title Bank Risk Taking Behaviour In Malaysia: Role Of Board And Ownership Structure
title_short Bank Risk Taking Behaviour In Malaysia: Role Of Board And Ownership Structure
title_full Bank Risk Taking Behaviour In Malaysia: Role Of Board And Ownership Structure
title_fullStr Bank Risk Taking Behaviour In Malaysia: Role Of Board And Ownership Structure
title_full_unstemmed Bank Risk Taking Behaviour In Malaysia: Role Of Board And Ownership Structure
title_sort bank risk taking behaviour in malaysia: role of board and ownership structure
publisher Asian Academy of Management (AAM)
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