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Volume 3; Issue 2; February 2017; Page No. 85-90
Corporate governance, diversification, and risk management in commercial banks of Ethiopia
1
K Sambasiva Rao, 2
Teshome Dula Jirra
1
Professor, Department of Commerce and Management Studies, Andhra University Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
2
PhD Scholar, Department of Commerce and Management studies, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Abstract
This study examined the effect of corporate governance attributes and bank characteristics on liquidity risk in commercial banks of
Ethiopia. Out of 18 commercial banks operating in Ethiopia, 14 banks were selected based on their age. Data of 6 year totaling 84
observation had collected from National bank and each sampled banks. We have used panel data model and based on hauseman
specification test, random effect model was selected. The results of the study showed that risk committee size, bank liquidity, capital
adequacy ratio, loan concentration, income diversification, bank size, and loan growth were variables which had significant effect
on liquidity risk. Whereas, board size, ownership type, risk committee meeting frequency and operational efficiency of management
had no significant effect on liquidity risk. Therefore, it is recommended that the commercial banks should improve loan
concentration by diversifying their loan portfolio, and they should enhance income diversification by relying on non-traditional
income sources, and the board sub-committee; risk committee size should be given due emphasis to enhance effective risk
management in Ethiopian commercial banks.
Keywords: corporate governance, risk management, bank, Ethiopia
1. Introduction
The effect of corporate governance attributes, government
regulation, and bank characteristics, on risk in banking sector
is a debatable issue which is subject to in-depth investigation
and can have significant policy implication. This study tries to
examine the effect of corporate governance attributes,
government regulation, and bank characteristics on liquidity
risk in Ethiopian commercial Banks.
The modern banking system in Ethiopia was first introduced in
1905 by the Emperor Minilik II during which bank of
Abyssinia was inaugurated in 1906. Bank of Abyssinia was the
first indigenous bank in Africa and established by an official
decree on August 29, 1931. In the earlier periods of the
Ethiopian banking history, the sector was all open to foreign
banks to operate and invest in Ethiopia. This resulted in the
opening of Barclays bank which came with British troops in
1941. According to World Bank report (2013) [1]
total bank
assets constitute 25% of the total GDP in Ethiopia which
clearly indicates how significant the sector is to the overall
economy.
The activity of banks in the area of funds and maturity
transformation is the fundament for creating liquidity risk,
including so-called “bank runs” (Diamond and Dybvig 1983)
[2]
, (Rajan and Bird 2003)[3]
, (Goodhart 2008)[4]
. The mismatch
between maturities of assets and liabilities, both on balance
sheet and off balance sheet, forms a classic mismatch gap
which constitutes structural risk. This risk is determined by the
character of funding sources, which are short or medium-term,
in comparison to long-term lending.
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) issued
a global regulatory framework, known as Basel III, in
December 2010 to create more resilient banks and banking
systems. Basel III requires that a bank meet both short-term
and longer-term liquidity ratios. These ratios measure the
bank’s potential cash outflows against hypothetical inflows
from assets considered repossess able or salable. Liquidity
Coverage ratio(LCR) was recommended by Basil III to control
short term liquidity, while the net stable funding ratio(NSFR)
was recommended to control long-term liquidity problem in
banking sector. However, those techniques are not practically
implemented in Ethiopian banking sector.
Liquidity risk management in The Banking sector of Ethiopia
is commonly based on management of maturity structure of
asset and liability. Such approach is principally aims at
safeguarding the bank ability to meet is payment obligation;
funding liquidity risk. Thus, the most common techniques of
measuring funding liquidity risk in Ethiopian banking sector is
cash flow mis-match or liquidity gap analysis.
Corporate governance within banks facilitates the balancing of
powers between the shareholders and managers. Maintaining
the balance of power and control between the two has been the
key challenge of corporate governance, specifically when it
comes to risk taking. literature highlights three key differences
that distinguish the governance of banks from other firms; (i)
The broader range of stakeholder, including depositors and
creditors; (ii) The opacity and complexity of banks business,
(Devriese et al. 2004) [5]
, (Graham, Harvey & Rajgopal, 2005)
[6]
; and, (iii) The unique system of oversight in the form of bank
supervisors, deposit insurers and a comprehensive body of
banking laws and regulation.
Boards are at the centre of the corporate governance system of
a bank, as they are the link between the three levels of parties
of interest; the shareholders, the managers, and the
stakeholders by ensuring proper disclosure and transparency.
Board structure and their effectiveness has started to receive
intensive attention of the regulators, policy creators and
researchers after the 2007/2008 financial crisis, since board
ineffectiveness was viewed as the major cause of the financial
crisis.
November 2009, the National bank of Ethiopia Bank
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supervision directorate had conducted its first bank risk
management survey. The report of the survey shows that
Full/part of board members in 87% of banks did not sit for
training on risk management. 60% of banks’ boards of
directors are not provided with relevant and up-to-date
economic, business and market data for informed decision-
making. The survey had also reported that Credit risk,
Operational risk, and liquidity risk were the prominent risk
which is suspected to challenge banking industry in the long
run. NBE (2009) [7]
.
1.1 Statement of the Problem
Liquidity risk in the narrower sense (insolvency risk), i.e. the
danger that a bank will be unable to meet its present and future
payment obligations completely or on time.
The type of liquidity risk involved can result in a variety of
implications as to how each individual institution manages its
liquidity risk. However, the available information shows that
all banks generally pursue the same objectives. These are
usually; to ensure solvency at all times, to optimize intergroup
cash flows (pooling liquidity, thereby reducing dependency on
external refinancing), and to optimize the refinancing structure.
The main objective of this study was to investigate
determinants of liquidity risk based on panel data taken from
Ethiopian commercial banks. NBE annual report (2009),
Ethiopian banks face credit and operational risks more severely
than other types of risks. The national bank of Ethiopia
conducted a survey on 15 banks and identified the nature of
risk faced the banks. For question provided to banks which
three risks had most affected your banks in the last two years?
According to the report credit, operational and liquidity risks
were key bank risks over the last two years, and would continue
to be so over the next five years. Fortune news published on
January 1, 2015 indicated that almost all commercial private
banks found them confronted with liquidity crises, after
suffering from what is known in the finance world as “a run on
a bank” phenomenon occurred. It is an unusual situation where
depositors demand withdrawals in unusually huge sums, with
the result threatening to stall the whole payment system of the
country. Therefore, examining the factors that affect liquidity
risks of the banks in Ethiopia is entirely open for future studies
and identifying the factors is also very essential.
1.2 Objectives of the Study
1. To examine the effect of corporate governance attributes on
liquidity risk in Commercial banks
2. To investigate the effect of loan concentration on liquidity
risk in Commercial banks
3. To examine the effect of income diversification on liquidity
risk in commercial banks
2. Review of Literature
Corporate governance within banks facilitates the balancing of
powers between the shareholders and managers. Maintaining
the balance of power and control between the two has been the
key challenge of corporate governance, specifically when it
comes to risk taking. This approach goes in line with the
agency theory. In addition, the balance of power stems from
the differences within the governance mechanisms related to
investor protection in different countries. In many emerging
economies, the development of financial markets and investor
protection is not yet fully developed. The frameworks for
accounting, transparency, and disclosure are generally weak,
as is the capability of the regulators to serve as the
counterbalancing influence. After the global financial crisis of
2008/9, much attention has been paid to the link between
corporate governance and risk management in financial
institutions. Firm boards have historically adopted various
approaches. The two main approaches are having a dedicated
risk committee or combining risk oversight with another
function and giving it to audit committee. Aebi et al. (2012) [8]
.
Who point out that the presence of risk committee in board
room indicates a stronger risk management.
Additional literature, which has built on agency theory about
the direct effect of ownership concentration on bank risk,
assumes that stakeholders prefer more risk to less, Nocera &
Sironi, (2007) [9]
.
In order to obtain higher returns, managers must resort to
higher risk-taking in their banking activities. Governance
mechanisms work differently depending on the type of
ownership structure. Nocera & Sironi (2007), in their
hypotheses on the ownership–governance interaction on the
large European banks, compare government owned banks
(GOB); privately owned banks (POB) They find that
government owned banks exhibit a lower profitability than
privately owned banks.
Corporate governance literature identifies three determinants
of the effectiveness in the board composition: independence
(number of independent members against inside members),
size (large number of board members vs. small boards), and
experience (past financial expertise). Equity ownership by
inside directors or managers, and lately the gender determinant
(male vs. female), have been the subject of some research as
well. The question remaining to be answered is how the
composition of the boards of directors influences the risk
taking and performance of banks. In terms of the roles and
responsibilities of the board, theoretical governance literature
on boards suggests that choosing appropriate board
composition and size would balance the monitoring and
advising the management (Raheja, 2005; Adams & Ferreira,
2007) [10, 15]
Liquidity is the ability of bank to fund increases in assets and
meet obligations as they come due, without incurring
unacceptable losses. Liquidity risk is sometimes also referred
to as a sub-category of market risk related to bank ability to
fulfill their obligations in meeting demands from depositors for
withdrawal of their deposits. (Khadijah Iskandar, 2014) [11]
In order to improve liquidity risk management practices, the
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision on Jan 2013
published the Basel III: The Liquidity Coverage Ratio and
Liquidity Risk Monitoring Tools. Basel III was introduced
with objective to ensure sound liquidity in financial institutions
and prevent recurrence of the liquidity crisis. Compared to the
earlier Basel I and II frameworks, Basel III proposes many
additional capital, leverage and liquidity standards to
strengthen the regulation, supervision and risk management of
the banking sector. Two measurement for liquidity
management have been introduced which is Liquidity Cover
Ratio (LCR) and Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR).
According to (Basel III 2013), the objective of introducing the
LCR is to promote short term resilience of the liquidity risk
profile of banks by ensuring that bank have sufficient high
quality liquidity assets can be converted to cash to survive any
stress scenario lasting for 30 calendar days. For NSFR, the
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main objective is to promote resilience over a longer time
horizon by creating additional incentives for banks to fund
their activities with more stable sources of funding ongoing
basis. Normally Net Stable Funding Ratio has a time horizon
is one year and has been developed to provide a sustainable
maturity structure of assets and liabilities. (Khadijah Iskandar
2014) [11]
.
Ganic Muhamed (2014) [12]
a study conducted to identify
determinants of liquidity risk in banking sector of Bosenia
indicates ROE and TLD are negatively related to liquidity risk.
Other studies (Brokovich et al., 2004) [13]
question the
effectiveness of board of directors in reducing risk when it is
small, and on a basis of arguments show the presence of a
positive relationship between small size and banking risk. They
believe that a large board of directors could help better assess
the risk of investment projects thanks to a diversified structure
and to a better expertise.
Faccio et al. (2011) [14]
find an inverse link between firm risk
and female directors, while Adams and Funk (2011) [15]
show
that female directors are more prone to take risks than men.
The sectoral diversification has an unclear effect on banks with
moderate risk but decreases the performance of banks
characterized by a high level of risk. (Acharya et al., 2004) [16].
The proponents of activity diversification or product mix argue
that diversification provides a stable and less volatile income,
economies of scope and scale, and the ability to leverage
managerial efficiency across products (Choi and Kotrozo,
2006) [17]
.
2.1 Hypothesis Development
Based on the review of literature, the following testable
hypothesis was design for this study.
Ho1 : Board risk committee size has negative relationship with
liquidity risk in commercial banks
Ho2 : Gender diversity in board room has negative
relationship with liquidity risk in commercial banks
Ho3 : Board size has a positive relationship with liquidity risk
in commercial banks
Ho4 : Frequency of risk committee meeting has negative
relationship with liquidity risk in commercial banks
Ho5 : Income diversification has negative relationship with
liquidity risk in commercial banks
Ho6 : Loan concentration has positive relationship with
liquidity risk in banking sector
3. Research Methodology
This study was Explanatory study in design and investigates
the nature of relationships between dependent and independent
variables. A quantitative method of data analysis was
employed which is panel data regression analysis. Data
collected was analyzed using Random effect model (GLS
regression). Stata 11 was the statistical package used as a tool
to analyze the data.
3.1 Sample selection
The population of the study was all commercial banks
operating in Ethiopia during the year 2010-2015. There were
nineteen (19) banks operating in Ethiopia, where eighteen (18)
are commercial banks, and one (1) Development bank owned
by government. Out of the 18 commercial banks, two banks
were public owned while sixteen banks were privately owned.
Out of 18 commercial banks, we have selected 14 commercial
banks purposively. The selected banks were commercial banks
which had served more than six year. The data source was
Audited financial reports collected from national bank and
sampled banks during the period 2010-2015. The collected
data was analyzed using panel data model; Random effect
model.
3.2 Dependent and Independent Variables
The dependent variable of this study was liquidity risk
measured by using financial gap ratio introduced by Saunders
and Cornet (2007)[18]
. Financial gap is defined as the difference
between loan and bank's core deposits. For standardization of
financial gap, the variable of financial gap is divided by total
asset.
The independent variables were corporate governance
attributes and bank characteristics; board size, number of
female directors in board room, risk committee meeting,
Capital adequacy ratio, total loan to total deposit ratio, loan
concentration measured by Herefendal Hershman index, and
income diversification. Beside the independent variables,
control variables have been introduced to explain the variation
of liquidity risk in commercial banks. Therefore, by following
previous studies, bank size, ownership type, loan growth, and
management efficiency were control variables added in this
study.
3.3 Model Specification
The research model used for this study was a random effect
panel data model similar to model used by Burak Aydemir
(2012) [19]
. The random effect panel data model assumes that
the variation across entities is assumed to be random and
uncorrelated with the predictor or independent variables
included in the model. It allows for time-invariant variables to
play a role as explanatory variables. Therefore, this research
has the following general model:
Yit=αi+ ΣβXkit +ui+ εit
Where
Yit - the dependent variable for bank i,at time t
Xkit, the independent variables
αi - intercept for bank i
εit – is the error term
Ui-unobserved bank specific heterogeneity
On its expanded form using the study variables, this research
model has the following form:
LRit=β0+β1BSit+β2PFDit+β3RCSit+β4RCMit+β5TLT
Dit+β6CARit+β7DIVIit+β8HHILnit+β9OWit+
β10lnTAit+ β11Lgit+ β12MEit +ui+εit
Where
LRit -stands for liquidity risk of bank i at time t measured by
financial gap ratio
BS- stands for board size
PFD-stands for percentage of female directors in board room
RCS- stands for risk committee size
RCM- stands for risk committee member meeting in a year
TLTD- stands for ratio of total loan to total deposit
CAR-stands for Capital adequacy ratio (a measure of external
corporate governance)
DIVI-Stands for income diversification in banking sector
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HHILn-Stands for sectoral concentration of loan in banking
sector
OWN -stands for ownership type
LnTA-stand for bank size and expressed ass natural logarithm
of total asset
LG- stands for annual growth of loan
ME-stands for operating efficiency of management
Β0 is intercept for bank i
β1, β2 …β12 are parameters estimated (coefficient of
independent variables)
ui is un observed bank specific hetrogenity
εit is the error term, i =bank, t=time
3.4 Test of Classical Linear Regression Model (CLRM)
assumptions.
i) Normality test
The analysis of residuals is a technique to see if there are any
obvious patterns left within the unexplained portion of the
variation of the dependent variable. The emphasis is upon not
missing patterns that might suggest a relationship between the
independent and dependent variables. Thus, one assumption of
classical linear regression model (CLRM) is testing the normal
distribution of the residual part of the model; the residuals are
the difference between the original data and the predicted
values from the regression equation. In this study, we have
conducted Shapiro-wilk test and the result showed
(W=0.93482 and prob> z 0.36), implying that the residuals are
normally distributed; it means that model inference is valid.
ii) Heteroscedasticity test
In this study, we have conducted the brush pagan test to cheek
existence of heteroscedastic (violation of homoscedasticity).
The result of the test showed a chi-square value of 0.63,
therefore we fail to reject the null hypothesis; constant
Variance. It indicated that there is no hetroscedasticity
problem.
iii) Multicolinearity test
Although there is no one unique method of detecting
multicollinearity, we have used variance inflation factor (VIF)
for this particular study. The variance inflation factor was less
than 10 implying that, there is no multicoliniarity problem.
iv) Model specification test
A model specification error can occur when one or more
relevant variables are omitted from the model or one or more
irrelevant variables are included in the model. To cheek
existence of model specification error, we have conducted
Ramsey reset test using power of the fitted value of liquidity
risk measured by financial gap ratio. The result of the test
showed that the probability value of 0.023. Thus, we fail to
reject the null hypotheses; model has no omitted variable. It
implies that the model was free from model specification error.
v) Model selection test
There are broadly two classes of panel data estimator
approaches that can be employed in empirical research: fixed
effects models and random effects models. Before running
regression analyses to examine the effect of independent
variables on dependent variable, we have tested whether fixed
or random effect was appropriate to the specified model.
Therefore; the first issue was choosing between fixed effects
(FE) and a random effects (RE) model based on the Hausman
test where the null hypothesis says that random effects model
is appropriate than the fixed effects model. According to Chris
brooks (2008) [20]
, if the p-value for the Hausman test is greater
than 5%, indicating that the fixed effects model is not
appropriate and that the random effect is to be preferred. Based
on this fact, the result we have conducted houseman test and it
showed p-value of 0.98, implying that random effect model
was the appropriate.
4. Result and discussion
Table 1: Regression result liquidity risk as dependent variable (Random effect model, GLS regression)
Coef. Std. Err. Sig.
Board size (BS) .0036912 .0174038 0.832
Number of Female directors in Board room .0415836 .0365473 0.255
Risk committee Meeting (RCM) -.0013636 .0080435 0.558
Risk committee Size (RCS) -.0812341 .0276477 0.003***
Total loan to total Deposit (TLTD) 1.387525 .3928598 0.000***
Capital Adequacy ratio(CAR) .0226273 .0085469 0.008**
Loan concentration (HHIln) 1.193149 .3360184 0.000***
Income diversification(DIVin) -.7722035 .4202664 0.066*
Bank size (lnTA) .2512129 .0918451 0.006***
Ownership type(OWNR) .0587219 .1214082 0.629
Operational efficiency of management (ME) -.0208372 .0330768 0.529
Loan growth (LG) -.2998632 .0988615 0.002***
cons -2.186574 .3879277 0.000
No observation =84
F( 9, 74) = 10.95 prob>F= 0.0000***
R-squared =0.5747 Number of observation 84
Adj.R-squared =0.5028 Number of groups 6
Observation per group 14
Root MSE = .22338
*Statistically significant at 10% level of significance,** statistically significant at 5% level of significance,*** statistically significant at 1%
level of significance
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The explanatory power of the model; R-square value is
57.47%. This implies that 57.47% of variance in liquidity risk
measured by financial gap ratio was explained by the
independent variables. The regression result showed that risk
committee size, bank liquidity measured by total loan to total
deposit, capital adequacy ratio, loan concentration, income
diversification, bank size, and loan growth were variables
which had significant effect on liquidity risk. whereas, board
size, number of female directors in board room, ownership
type, risk committee meeting frequency and operational
efficiency of management were variables which had no
significant effect on liquidity risk. The detail discussion of the
regression result on the basis of the research hypothesis is
presented here under;
Hypothesis (H1): Board risk committee size (RCS)
The result of the GLS random effect model as presented in
table 2 shows that there is a significant negative relationship
between risk committee size and liquidity risk management in
Commercial banks. The regression coefficient for the predictor
variable (RCS) is -.0812341. Therefore, H1: there is negative
relationship between risk committee size and liquidity risk is
accepted.
Hypothesis (H2): number of female directors in board room
The result of the regression analysis as presented in table 1
shows that there is positive relationship between number of
female director in board room and liquidity risk management
in Commercial banks. The regression coefficient for the
predictor variable (NFD) is .0415836. Therefore, H2: there is
negative relationship between number of female directors in
board room and liquidity risk is rejected.
Hypothesis (H3): Board size
The result of the regression analysis as presented in table 1
shows that there is a positive relationship between risk
committee size and liquidity risk management in Commercial
banks. The regression coefficient for the predictor variable
(BS) is 0.0036912. Therefore, H2: there is positive relationship
between risk committee size and liquidity risk is accepted.
Hypothesis (H4): risk committee meeting frequency
The result of the regression analysis as presented in table 2
shows that there is a negative relationship between risk
committee meeting frequency and liquidity risk management
in Commercial banks. The regression coefficient for the
predictor variable (RCM) is -.0013636.Therefore, H4: there is
negative relationship between risk committee meeting
frequency and liquidity risk management is accepted.
Hypothesis (H5): income diversification
The result of the regression analysis as presented in table 1
shows that there is a significant negative relationship between
income diversification and liquidity risk management in
Commercial banks. The regression coefficient for the predictor
variable (DIVin) is (0.77.) Therefore, H5: there is negative
relationship between diversification and liquidity risk is
accepted.
Hypothesis (H6): loan concentration
The result of the regression analysis as presented in table 1
shows that there is a significant positive relationship between
loan concentration and liquidity risk management in
Commercial banks. The regression coefficient for the predictor
variable (HHIln) is 1.19.Therefore, H6: there is positive
relationship between loan concentration and liquidity risk is
accepted.
5. Conclusion
The regression result suggest that, risk committee size, bank
liquidity, loan concentration, income diversification, loan
growth, and bank size had significant effect on liquidity risk. It
implies that improvement of loan concentration and income
diversification can enhance the liquidity problems of
commercial banks in Ethiopia. Whereas, risk committee
meeting frequency, operational efficiency of management,
board size, and ownership type had no significant effect on
banks liquidity.
The findings of this study indicated, Ethiopian commercial
banks board of subcommittee, especially risk committee size
play a pivotal role in effective supervision of the risk
management in banking sector. Therefore, the banks should
give due consideration to the size of risk committee in board
room. As the size of the members of risk committee increase,
there is possibility of enhancing diversity of the committee
members in terms of expertise, experience, education, and
skill, which could enhance bank supervision and minimize
problems of liquidity.
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