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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects on the Italian directorship network of the corporate governance reform that was introduced in Italy in 2011 to prevent interlocking directorships in the financial sector. Interlocking directorships are important communication channels among...
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We analyse the relationship between the extent of a firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its long-term survival probability. We conjecture that a better CSR rating is associated with a lower probability of corporate failure and a longer survival period. Consistent with this, we...
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If firm profits rise to a level far above than what would have been earned in a competitive economy, this might give the firms market power, which might in turn influence the activity of the government. In this paper, we perform a detailed empirical study on the potential effects of firm profits...
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This paper collects an original database of publicly listed companies to determine prevailing gender ratios among board … States, but much less so in the Caribbean. It is then estimated whether companies with women board members are more likely to … be the case only for board membership and only when the proportion of women on the board is greater than 30 percent …
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