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Many corporations reward their outside directors with a modest fee for each board meeting they attend. Using two non …-overlapping data sets on director attendance behavior, we provide robust evidence that directors are less likely to have attendance …,200, represent an arguably small fraction of the total wealth of a representative director in our samples. Thus, corporate directors …
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Using a sample of 231 entrepreneurial firm successions in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, we find that firms' unsigned discretionary accruals decrease while timely loss recognition increases subsequent to successions, suggesting a shift in accounting toward a less insider-based system. We...
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This paper investigates the role of corporate boards in bank loan contracting. We find that when corporate boards are more independent, both price and non-price loan terms (e.g., interest rates, collateral, covenants and performance pricing) are more favorable and syndicated loans comprise more...
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We study the evolution of the control structure for a large sample of privatized firms in OECD countries and find evidence broadly consistent with the concept of "reluctant privatization", defined as the transfer of ownership rights in State-owned enterprises without a corresponding transfer of...
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This paper shows that pyramidal ownership can be used to control downside risk. The research setting is Thailand before and after the 1997 Asian crisis. The focus is on family business groups that owned banks. The results show that the controlling family pursues different investment strategies...
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in the firms' management as officers and directors. …
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-American style of corporate governance'. This paper seeks to contrast the effect of corporate governance on the directors' incentive …, by comparing the UK and Japan. There is a positive and significant relationship between directors' pay and employees …' average wage in Japan, suggesting that both directors and employees have a similar incentive system while no such relationship …
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This paper examines the financial sector preconditions for the successful development of high technology sectors. It argues that there is a close relation between types of activities undertaken in different countries and their institutional structures. A distinguishing characteristic of the...
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This study examines the behavioural biases of Japanese institutional investors and discusses implications for their role in corporate governance, based on the findings of a questionnaire survey of fund managers carried out in 2003. Statistical analysis of the survey results reveals a short-term...
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