… board busyness across the two bank types, we extend the Islamic and conventional banking
… Second, we find that having busy boards of directors can reduce agency costs within banks. …

… To investigate the distinct effects of board busyness on the cost of debt conditional on banks'
… evaluate such issue across two global banking systems: Islamic and conventional banks. …

… because such lower agency costs can effectively protect … board busyness and bank value
among the two bank types. Our empirical analyses involve studying agency conflicts and board …

… Board busyness is likely to lead to high agency costs, related to free cash flow and optimal
choices of financial policies. Such associated conflicts have adverse impacts on dividend …

… between “busyness” of the board of directors (serving on multiple boards) and bank
holding … costs of large boards. Busy directors with knowledge about different industries help …

… bank risk measurements. Our results support the Busyness Hypothesis as we show that bank
boards … By investigating the relationship between board busyness and bank risk, we aim to …

… capital structure motivates shareholder-friendly directors to take on more risk at the cost
of … We include several control variables related to board and bank specific attributes, bank …

… effects of board busyness-related topics through the global banking system and differential
… and firms weigh the returns and costs of investing in a busyness signal and make optimising …

… finds that at the low level of busyness of directors, banks … to take on more risks at the
cost of depositors’ and creditors’ … runs from board busyness to bank performance and risk-taking, …

… the impact of board busyness (ie multiple directorships held by outside board members) on
… of directors exhibit high financial stability (ie high profitability; low cost-to-income ratio; low …