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Regulation and firm value : curious case of transparency and disclosure laws in Russia
Banerjee, Suman; Masulis, Ronald W.; Pal, Sarmistha - 2016
We provide novel evidence on the effectiveness of mandated changes in Russian transparency and disclosure (henceforth T …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457931
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Corporate disclosure, compliance and consequences : evidence from Russia
Banerjee, Suman; Estrin, Saul; Pal, Sarmistha - 2022
Does the introduction of corporate transparency and disclosure rules in emerging economies affect compliance, and … voluntary disclosure and find a significant increase in corporate disclosure among the domestic Russian firms over the period … 2003-07 when firms gradually adopted some but not all disclosure rules. The immediate effect of the introduction was a drop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163548
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Ownership or performance : what determines board of directors' turnover in Italy?
Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - 2000
This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318600
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Legal corruption, politically connected corporate governance and firm performance
Domadenik, Polona; Prašnikar, Janez; Švejnar, Jan - 2014
In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our model predicts that underdeveloped democratic institutions that do not punish political corruption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381906
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The gender composition of corporate boards and firm performance : evidence from Russia
Garanina, Tatiana; Muravyev, Alexander - 2019
This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019226
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Does the legal form matter for firm performance in the MENA Region?
Ahmad, Issam Abdo; Fakih, Ali - 2021
This paper attempts to study the relationship between firm legal form and firm performance in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) using the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) database. Our analysis shows that open shareholding, closed shareholding, partnership, and limited...
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Female board representation and corporate performance : a review and new estimates for Australia
Bayly, Nicholas; Breunig, Robert; Wokker, Chris - 2023
Despite a conventional wisdom that female board members positively impact firm performance, a thorough examination of the research to date reveals no consensus that female board members have either a positive or negative effect on firm performance. We build the largest dataset of Australian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431554
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Worker directors : a German product that didn't export?
Addison, John T. (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2009
Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the empirical evidence on the effects of the institution, tracing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793899
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Firm performance and managerial turnover : the case of Ukraine
Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Bilyk, Olga; … - 2009
The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to their performance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds statistically significant negative association between the past performance of firms measured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894422
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Performance effects of appointing other firms' executive directors to corporate boards : an analysis of UK firms
Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Weir, Charlie - 2014
This paper studies the effect on company performance of appointing non-executive directors that are also executive directors in other firms. The analysis is based on a new panel dataset of UK companies over 2002-2008. Our findings suggest a positive relationship between the presence of these...
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