List of contributors vii
Preface xi
1 Corporate governance, bank regulation and activity
expansion in the United States 1
Bernard Shull
2 Corporate governance in banks: does the board structure
matter? 18
Benton E. Gup
3 Corporate governance and bank performance 40
Kenneth Spong and Richard J. Sullivan
4 Corporate governance at community banks: one size does
not fit all 62
Robert DeYoung
5 Bank mergers and insider trading 77
Tareque Nasser and Benton E. Gup
6 Conflicts of interest and corporate governance failures at
universal banks during the stock market boom of the 1990s:
the cases of Enron and WorldCom 97
Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr.
7 Basel II: operational risk and corporate culture 134
Benton E. Gup
8 A cross-country analysis of bank performance: the role of
external governance 151
James R. Barth, Mark J. Bertus, Valentina Hartarska,
Hai Jason Jiang and Triphon Phumiwasana
9 A survey of corporate governance in banking: characteristics
of the top 100 world banks 184
Rowan Trayler
10 Corporate governance: the case of Australian banks 210
Mohamed Ariff and Mohammad Z. Hoque
11 Germany’s three-pillar banking system from a corporate
governance perspective 234
Horst Gischer, Peter Reichling and Mike Stiele
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