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Executive compensation, firm performance, and corporate governance in China: evidence from firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2005
This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using … comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive … cash compensation (salary and bonus) for top executives with respect to shareholder value in China. In addition, sales …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267302
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CEO turnover, firm performance and enterprise reform in China: evidence from new micro data
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2006
Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China's securities regulatory agency appears to be … shareholders have weaker turnover-performance link. Consistent with the law and finance approach to corporate governance and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274393
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CEO Turnover, Firm Performance and Enterprise Reform in China: Evidence from New Micro Data
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China’s securities regulatory agency appears to be … shareholders have weaker turnover-performance link. Consistent with the "law and finance" approach to corporate governance and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566546
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Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence from Firms Listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using … comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive … cash compensation (salary and bonus) for top executives with respect to shareholder value in China. In addition, sales …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566733
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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs : Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?
Tian, Lihui; Estrin, Saul - 2005
The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China?s newly privatized … large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both harm and benefit companies. We examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262209
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Does corporate governance reform necessarily boost firm performance? Recent evidence from Russia
Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - 2012
This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282468
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Ownership or Performance: What Determines Board of Directors' Turnover in Italy?
Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno Maria - 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/10010276137
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Executive compensation, firm performance, and chaebols in Korea: evidence from new panel data
Kato, Takao; Kim, Woochan; Lee, Ju Ho - 2005
This paper provides the first rigorous econometric estimates on the pay-performance relations for executives of Korean firms with and without Chaebol affiliation. To do so, we have assembled for the first time panel data (that provide information not only on executive compensation and firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267324
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CEO and board characteristics as determinants of private benefits of control: Evidence from the Russian stock exchange
Berezinets, Irina; Ilina, Yulia; Muravyev, Alexander - 2011
This paper investigates whether and how various characteristics of CEOs and corporate boards are related to the severity of corporate governance problems within firms. The latter is proxied by private benefits of control, which we measure for dual class stock firms using the voting premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282260
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Tournaments and managerial incentives in China's listed firms: new evidence
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2008
an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268884