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Corporate Governance and Bank Performance: Evidence from Macedonia
Fidanoski, Filip; Mateska, Vesna; Simeonovski, Kiril - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The role of banks is integral to the economic development of any country. Given the renewed attention on the corporate governance in banks with the global financial crises, this paper investigates the relevance of board size, board composition and CEO qualities in the banks and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107627
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Relationship between Corporate Governance Indicators and Firm Value: A Case Study of Karachi Stock Exchange
Javed, Attiya Y.; Iqbal, Robina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We investigated whether differences in quality of firm-level corporate governance can explain the firm-level performance in a cross-section of companies listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. Therefore, we analysed the relationship between firm-level value as measured by Tobin’s Q and total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623348
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Board size and corporate risk-taking: Further evidence from Japan
Nakano, Makoto; Nguyen, Pascal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Evidence based on US firms suggests that large boards restrain risk taking. We investigate whether a similar effect exists in Japan. Our results confirm that firms with larger boards exhibit lower performance variability relative to firms with smaller boards. However, this effect is less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110836
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The effect of corporate governance on the performance of US investment banks.
mamatzakis, em - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper focuses on the impact of the corporate governance, using a plethora of measures, on the performance of US investment banks over the 2000-2012 period. This time period offers a unique set of information, related to the credit crunch, that we model using a dynamic threshold analysis to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113233
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Does Corporate Governance Effects Firm Performance in Case of Pakistani Market
Javid, Attiya Yasmin; Iqbal, Robina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We investigated whether differences in quality of firm level corporate governance can explain the firm level performance in cross-section of companies listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. We analyzed relationship between firm-level value and total Corporate Governance Index (CGI) and three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257835
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Does the composition of the board matter? On the relationship between corporate governance and value creation
Rivo-López, Elena; Villanueva-Villar, Mónica; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper studies the effect of corporate governance on value creation for listed companies. It also examines whether the fact that a business is owned or partly owned by a family has an impact on this variable as well as the behavior of companies at different stages of the economic cycle. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108184
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A Comparative Study on Landownership between China and England
Deng, Feng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
By comparing the development of landownership in China and England, this paper explores what were behind their … early China has established a unique economic system that allowed free alienation of land, but it has been trying to check … strengthening and expanding of patriarchal clan system. The different development paths of China and England show the different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835578
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Stakeholders Model of Governance in Islamic Economic System
Iqbal, Zamir; Mirakhor, Abbas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
of a stakeholder model on depositors, Islamic financial institutions, and regulators. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108916
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Импорт в Россию институтов корпоративного управления и их мутация
Vernikov, Andrei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper deals with the evolution of corporate governance institutions that were imported into Russia in the 1990s … interests of various stakeholders prompts a hypo-thesis as to why initial rejection of new institutions of corporate governance … governance’. We argue that in Russia imported institutions tend to mutate, i.e. to work differently than in the eco-nomic systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042692
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Agency cost, corporate governance and ownership structure: the case of Pakistan
Sajid, Gul; Muhammad, Sajid; Nasir, Razzaq; Farman, Afzal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The article attempts to investigate the role of ownership structure and corporate governance in mitigating agency cost in a sample of 50 firms selected on the basis of market capitalization from “Karachi Stock Exchange” during the period 2003 to 2006. We used the proxy asset utilisation...
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