The corporate governance literature has shown that self-interested controlling owners tend to divert corporate resources for private benefits at the expense of other shareholders. Such behavior leads the controlling owners to prefer long maturity debt to short maturity debt, to avoid frequent...

This study investigates the effects of the separation of control and ownership on the value of cash holdings in publicly listed French firms. It also sheds light on the role of board independence in such a relation. Theory suggests that investors are more likely to discount the value of excess...

(VF)À partir d’un échantillon de 423 entreprises françaises observées sur la période 1999-2000, nous montrons que l’existence d’une séparation entre la propriété du capital et le contrôle des votes, ou d’un contrôle pyramidal ne dissuade pas les analystes de suivre une...

We investigate the influence of residual state ownership on firm behaviors in providing and receiving trade credit by using a Vietnamese government's privatization experiment. Our robust results show that a substantial withdrawal of state capital from listed state-owned enterprises (SOEs) does...

This study investigates the effects of some characteristics of the French corporate governance model - deemed to foster entrenchment and facilitate private benefits extraction - on the extent of analyst following. The results show that analysts are more likely to follow firms both with high...

This study investigates the effects of some characteristics of the French corporate governance model - deemed to foster entrenchment and facilitate private benefits extraction - on the extent of analyst following. The results show that analysts are more likely to follow firms both with high...

Using a large panel of U.S. public firms, we examine the relation between annual report readability and cost of equity capital. We hypothesize that complex textual reporting deters investors’ ability to process and interpret annual reports, leading to higher information risk, and thus higher...