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Corporate Governance and Bank Performance: Evidence from Macedonia
Fidanoski, Filip; Mateska, Vesna; Simeonovski, Kiril - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The role of banks is integral to the economic development of any country. Given the renewed attention on the corporate governance in banks with the global financial crises, this paper investigates the relevance of board size, board composition and CEO qualities in the banks and their...
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Quality of governance and bank valuation in Russia: An empirical study
Bokov, Vassily; Vernikov, Andrei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
variable. As for explanatory variables, we put together a set of proxies for quality of bank governance and management, such as ….g. degree of Board independence, qualification of external auditors), stability of bank’s governing bodies (Management Board and … bank, stability of the governing bodies, involvement of well-established external auditors and also that strategic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042720
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EXECUTIVE PAY AND PERFORMANCE IN PORTUGUESE LISTED COMPANIES
Alves, Paulo; Couto, Eduardo; Francisco, Paulo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This essay analyses the relationship between corporate governance practices and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) wages from a sample of Portuguese listed companies over the period from 2002-2011. The relationship between CEO total compensation and shareholders return, firm characteristics, CEO...
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Board diversity and firm performance: the Indonesian evidence
Darmadi, Salim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the associations between diversity of board members and financial performance of the firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Three demographic characteristics of board members—gender, nationality, and age—are used as the proxies for diversity. Using a sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259048
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Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? Evidence from Indonesia
Darmadi, Salim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between gender diversity on management boards and financial performance of Indonesian listed companies. We conduct cross-sectional regression analysis based on a sample comprising 92.4 percent of public firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX)....
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Privatisation versus capital market: the corporate governance case of Bulgaria
Tchipev, Plamen D - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
The paper presents some of the results of a survey of ownership sructure. The survey uses the classic tradition in the treatment of the problem,stating that the means for effective control on the management of the enterprise are determined by the scale and the distribution of the shareholders’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654240
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Corporate governance, affirmative action and firm value: evidence from post-apartheid South African firms
Ntim, collins g; Opong, kwaku k; Danbolt, jo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Research Question/Issue: The post-Apartheid South African (SA) corporate governance (CG) model is a unique hybridisation of the traditional Anglo-American and Continental European-Asian CG models, distinctively requiring firms to explicitly comply with a number of affirmative action and...
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Corporate governance in developing and emerging countries. The case of Romania
Giurca Vasilescu, Laura - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The experiences of the developed countries reveals that a good corporate governance could reduces risk, stimulates performance, improves access to capital markets, enhances the marketability of goods and services, improves leadership, increases the value of the corporations, enables the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837236
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The Case for Mandatory Ownership Disclosure
Schouten, Michael C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The use of equity derivatives to conceal economic ownership of shares (“hidden ownership”) is increasingly drawing attention from the financial community, as is the exercise of voting power without corresponding economic interest (“empty voting”). Market participants and commentators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000662
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The Impact of Investor Protection Law on Corporate Policy: Evidence from the Blue Sky Laws
Agrawal, Ashwini K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Recent studies have debated the impact of investor protection laws on firms’ corporate policies. I exploit the passage of state investor protection statutes (“blue sky laws”) in the U.S. in the early 20th century to estimate the effects of investor protection law on firm financing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061664