Commercial banker-directors (CBDs) bring both financial expertise in risk management and conflicts of interest between shareholders and debtholders. The burgeoning literature on stock price crash risk generates important questions of whether CBDs reduce crash risk. Using BoardEx data from 1999...

We argue that changes in the inheritance system affect incentives leading to sibling rivalry among descendants and therefore have a material impact on family firm performance. Using South Korea's 1991 inheritance law reform that stipulates the equal distribution of a deceased person's property...

Did the masculinity-driven corporate culture of Wall Street change after the 2008 global financial crisis? According to the neuroendocrinology literature, the voice pitch of a male is an ‘honest signal' of his testosterone level that affects risk taking for social dominance. We use digitally...

Governance literature finds that the independent directors from the lending banks (CBDs) bring both financial expertise and conflict of interest between shareholders and debtholder. We examine how the presence of CBDs affects the implicit incentive of CEO turnover. Using BoardEx and DealScan...

Does an improvement in stock market liquidity cause the board of directors to become more short-term oriented? Improved liquidity may lead to enhanced market efficiency with more trading by informed blockholders (Maug, 1998). Hence, stock price would better reflect the fundamental values of the...

Governance improvement measures often demand more financial experts on corporate boards. Directors from the lending bank require particular attention because the conflicts of interest between shareholders and debtholders would be severe. Hence, we examine whether commercial banker directors work...

We argue that changes in the inheritance system affect the incentives toward sibling rivalry among descendants, thereby having a material impact on family firm performance. Using South Korea's 1991 inheritance law reform that stipulates the equal distribution of a deceased person's property to...