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Corporate ownership structure and performance in Europe
Grant, Jeremy; Kirchmaier, Thomas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
to performance. For the first time we employ a Hodrick-Prescott Filter, a methodology widely used in macroeconomics to …
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The dark side of 'good' corporate governance: compliance-fuelled book-cooking activities
Kirchmaier, Thomas; Selvaggi, Mariano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
We argue on theoretical grounds that obligatory compliance with stricter financial reporting rules (e.g. the US Sabanes-Oxley Act) may entail important unintended consequences. Paradoxically, the amount of misreporting may increase because corporate boards spend more valuable resources...
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From fiction to fact: the impact of CEO social networks
Kirchmaier, Thomas; Stathopoulos, Konstantinos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between a CEO’s social network, firm identity, and firm performance. There are … relation between social networks and firm performance, while agency theory in general and Bebchuk’s managerial power approach … in particular predicts a negative relationship between social networks and firm performance. Based on a new and …
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