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Are the corporate governance standard in banks in the CEE countries low hanging fruit?
Slomka-Golebiowska, Agnieszka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The dominance of foreign capital in banking sector in the CEE countries created vulnerabilities that have been a … relatively strong position of banking sector during the recent financial crisis in contrast to many Western and some Eastern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259720
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Corporate governance of banks: the current state of the debate.
Polo, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
banks, other authors, among whom Ross Levine and his co-authors from the World Bank, question heavily the present banking … future of banking regulatory design: should the regulatory intervention be the most important corporate control mechanism in … banking or should regulators focus on introducing incentives for appropriate market behaviour? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836074
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Emerging Challenges in Indian Banking
Bhide, M G; Prasad, A; Ghosh, Saibal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The paper examines the process of banking sector reforms in India. It notes the beneficial impact to the financial … system consequent upon the reforms and highlights the current weaknesses in the banking system. Against this background, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620040
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Operational Risk Governance: The Basel Approach
Afanasyeva, Olga; Riabichenko, Dmitry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper analyses key documents of Basel Committee which concern operational risk governance and identifies the interconnectedness between risk source, type of the event leading to losses, loss type and its distribution by business lines. The comparative characteristic of the main operational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111915
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Audits, audit quality and signalling mechanisms: concentrated ownership structures
Marianne, Ojo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Do jurisdictions with concentrated ownership structures require less reliance on audits as corporate governance mechanisms and devices? Why do concentrated ownership structures still prevail in certain jurisdictions which are considered to be “market based corporate governance systems”? More...
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Family control and expropriation at not-for-profit organizations: evidence from korean private universities
Bae, Kee-Hong; Kim, Seung-Bo; Kim, Woochan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We study an agency problem in private universities — the conflict between controlling families and other stakeholders. We investigate whether universities over which controlling families have disproportionately significant power relative to the amount of funds they contribute, that is,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258770
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Product-market competition, corporate governance and innovation: evidence on US-listed firms
Hashem, Nawar; Ugur, Mehmet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently, corporate governance quality has emerged as an additional factor that may complement or substitute for competition’s effect on innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by...
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Corporate governance, competition, the new international financial architecture and large corporations in emerging markets
Singh, Ajit; Singh, Alaka; Weisse, Bruce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Abstract This paper examines from the developing countries perspective important analytical and policy issues arising from: a) the current international discussions about corporate governance in relation to the New International Financial Architecture; b) changes in the international competitive...
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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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Return enhancing, cash-rich or simply empire-building? An empirical investigation of corporate real estate holdings
Du, Julan; Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Chu, Derek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
No, we find no evidence for a return-enhancing role for corporate real estate holdings, which is consistent with the previous literature. Instead, our study based on a sample of U.S. listed corporations suggests that corporate real estate holdings are a form of managerial “empire building”....
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