protection where the main agency conflict opposes managers to shareholders (type I conflict). Using a sample of 81 French firms …In this paper we examine the influence of minority expropriation on disclosure level in France where shareholders are … poorly protected and the main agency problem is the one between controlling and minority shareholders (type II conflict …

managers and shareholders. These findings suggest that cross-sectional OLS regressions of bank performance on single governance … savings-and-loan holding companies. These governance characteristics, designed to reduce agency problems between shareholders … and managers, are insider ownership, blockholder ownership, the proportion of outside directors, board leadership …