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Governance and performance of Tunisian banks
Trabelsi, Mohamed Ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
researchers pay a particular attention to banking governance. Specifically, shareholders-managers’ convergence of interests and … negative effect on performance. The results also reveal that managers lack control while the board of directors seems to exert … shareholders and performance, a phenomenon which might be explained in terms of private appropriation of benefits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694021
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Agency Conflicts, Expropriation and Firm Value: Evidence from Securities-Market Regulation in China
Henk, Berkman; Rebel, Cole; Fu, Lawrence - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
protecting minority shareholders from expropriation by controlling shareholders. Using data from publicly traded Chinese firms …, Johnson and Shleifer (2001) that securities-market regulation can create substantial value for minority shareholders in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260290
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Common Law vs. Civil Law: Which System Provides More Protection to Shareholders and Creditors and Promotes Financial Development
sarkar, prabirjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
provide more protection to their shareholders and creditors; it also casts doubt on the related proposition that shareholder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277868
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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
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State of Corporate Governance in Arab Countries: An Overview
Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to assess the state of corporate governance as a major factor affecting the growth performance of the private sector in MENA countries. For this purpose both country-specific assessments, carried out by World Bank-IMF teams (so-called ROSC’s assessments) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835438
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¿Puede el gobierno corporativo aprender del gobierno público?
Jakob, Brugger; Immanuel, Samuel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In view of recent corporate scandals, it is argued that corporate governance can learn from public governance. Institutions devised to control and discipline the behaviour of executives in the political sphere can give new insights into how to improve the governance of firms. Some proposal such...
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The Reform of Corporate Governance in France
Panagiotopoulos, Miltiadis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The publications about the transition of French corporate governance are controversial fluctuating between proposing the integration of socioeconomic qualities, to the fragmentation of different and persistent systems by the interdependence of their attributes, or the predominance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835688
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Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover: The Case of Ukraine
Muravyev, Alexander; Bilyk, Olga; Grechaniuk, Bogdana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …
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The Effect of Legal Systems and Accounting Conservatism on Corporate Governance: The U.S. versus the U.K.(A Comparative Analysis)
Narayanan, Supreena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Corporate Governance deals with the ways in which suppliers of finance to corporations assure themselves of getting a return on their investments. This paper analyses the effects of legal systems and accounting conservatism on corporate governance. The U.K. and American corporate governance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836054
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Corporate governance of banks: the current state of the debate.
Polo, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Since banks are among the most important sources not only of finance but also of external governance for firms, the corporate governance of banks is a crucial factor for growth and development. Despite its importance, this topic has been explored only by a few studies. While some authors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836074