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The role of institutional investors in improving board of director attributes around the world

Alshabibi, Badar - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 4, pp. 1-33

This paper investigates the role of institutional investors in the improvement of corporate governance for the companies in which they invest (investee companies) using evidence about the attributes of boards of directors across 15 countries. Furthermore, this paper examines the extent to which...

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Institutional investors' distraction and executive compensation stickiness based on multiple regression analysis

Hong, Yizhao; Cao, Chongyan - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 16 (2023) 2, pp. 1-21

Based on the impact of industry extreme return on the attention of institutional investors, taking Chinese A-share listed companies from 2011 to 2020 as a sample, this paper empirically tests the relationship between institutional investors’ distraction and executive compensation stickiness...

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Shareholder activism and its impact on profitability, return, and valuation of the firms in India

Shingade, Sudam; Rastogi, Shailesh; Bhimavarapu, … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 4, pp. 1-20

The paper’s prime objective is to understand the impact of Shareholder activism on firm performance. This study is conducted in a unique setup where traditional activist investors such as pension funds and hedge funds are not present. However, the activism cases are increasing yearly in an...

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CSR and firm risk : is shareholder activism a double-edged sword?

Bozos, Konstantinos; King, Timothy; Koutmos, Dimitrios - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 11, pp. 1-22

Few can argue with the notion that corporations should at least consider corporate social responsibility (CSR) to better understand the impact of their operations on society. However, recent empirical tests suggest CSR has an ambiguous impact on firm performance. To shed new light on this...

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Volatility spillovers between stock market and hedge funds : evidence from Asia Pacific region

Fatima, Sameen; Gan, Christopher; Hu, Baiding - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 9, pp. 1-39

This paper investigates the nature of volatility spillovers between stock returns and hedge funds returns in twelve Asia Pacific countries in the 1997-2018 period. The sample period encompasses sub periods, 1997 Asia financial crisis, 2008 Global financial crisis and 2010 Eurozone crisis; these...

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The relationship between changes in corporate governance characteristics and intellectual capital

Nassirzadeh, Farzaneh; Askarany, Davood; Arefi-Asl, Solmaz - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 16 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19

The primary goal of this study was to investigate the effects of changes in corporate governance elements on a company’s valuable resources (such as intellectual capital and its components). Previous studies have examined the impacts of some corporate governance characteristics on intellectual...

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Gamesmanship and seasonality in U.S. stock returns

Ackert, Lucy F.; Athanassakos, George - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 5, pp. 1-11

We re-examined the seasonal pattern in the excess returns of highly visible American firms. In contrast to the seasonality for risky, less visible firms, we found that highly visible stocks display return seasonality that shows the opposite trend. Fund managers are prone to gamesmanship, putting...

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Corporate governance and dividend policy in the presence of controlling shareholders

Rodrigues, Ricardo; Felício, J. Augusto; Matos, Pedro Verga - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 8/162, pp. 1-15

been addressed despite the importance of dividends for shareholders and the implications on the free cash-flow, whose … application may be a source of conflicts between managers and shareholders. In this paper, we study the influence of a set of … the importance of governance mechanisms toward the protection of shareholders’ interests, and reveal that the decisions on …

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Reforms protecting minority shareholders and firm performance : international evidence

Burunciuc, Corina; Gonenc, Halit - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 1/5, pp. 1-24

This study investigates the effect of corporate governance reforms protecting minority shareholders on the firm value …

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Government subsidisation and shareholder wealth impact : evidence from Malaysia

Sinnadurai, Philip; Ravichandran K. Subramaniam; S. … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 9, pp. 1-24

This paper investigates the shareholder wealth impact of government investment in listed companies (and by extension, government subsidisation of those companies), using data from Malaysia. We distinguish two overlapping categories of government-related investors: those whose principal mission...

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