ORCID
- Ahmed El-Masry: 0000-0001-6058-2469
Abstract
The current study examines the relationship between corporate governance and risk management in GCC banks. It aims to contribute to the literature by providing empirical evidence from the GCC’s banking industry of the association between risk management and corporate governance characteristics such as role duality, board size and percentage of nonexecutives. Using sample of 900 observations from banks in the Gulf countries, non-parametric regression, Quantile and panel data analysis have been used to test the hypotheses and the proposed model. The study uses data from financial institutions in the Gulf countries over the period from 2003 till 2012. Findings suggest that role duality and board size are negatively associated with the risk management. On other hand the percentage of non-executive members on the board was found to be insignificant. Moreover, findings indicate a positive significant relationship between governmental ownership and risk management. The results suggest that Islamic banks have a positive significant association with risk management measured by capital adequacy ratio. The results suggest future research to explore the relationship between risk management and other types of ownership structure such as institutional ownership. Future research can focus on risk management framework and practices in Islamic banks as such banks have its own risk.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.22495/cocv13i3p1
Publication Date
2016-01-01
Event
The First International Conference on Islamic Banking and Finance (2016 ICIBF)
Publication Title
Corporate Ownership and Control
Volume
13
Issue
3
Publisher
Virtus Interpress
ISSN
1727-9232
Deposit Date
February 2017
Embargo Period
2024-06-06
Organisational Unit
Plymouth Business School
Keywords
Risk Management, Corporate Governance, Capital Adequacy, Islamic and Conventional Banks, GCC Countries
First Page
8
Last Page
16
Recommended Citation
El-Masry, A. A., Abdelfattah, T., & Elbahar, E. (2016) 'CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT IN GCC BANKS', Corporate Ownership and Control, 13(3), pp. 8-16. Virtus Interpress: Available at: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.22495/cocv13i3p1
