THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CEO CHARACTERISTICS AND THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE ROMANIAN BANKING SYSTEM

The main objective of this article is to analyze a possible relationship between the characteristics of the people who hold the CEO position within the banks that operate in the Romanian banking system in Romania and their financial performance indicators. Regarding CEO characteristics, they are analyzed in terms of education, age, gender diversity and the origin country (the nationality). The indicators regarding the banking financial performance that are used in the analysis are the return on assets (ROA) and the return on capital (ROE). Thus, the authors of this study tried to find answers to the question: Is there or not a relationship between the characteristics of the CEO and the performance of the Romanian banking? To answer this question, the authors used a predominantly quantitative methodology, based on a statistical deductive analysis, identification and testing of cause-effect interdependencies, while assessing the degree of significance of these connections.