Purpose: This paper aims to explore the effect of interlocking directorates on agency conflicts and corporate performance in the shipping industry. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use social network analysis to discover central nodes in the network of personal and corporate connections...

Dissemination of information via corporate websites is considered to be desirable, because it constitutes a way round modes of market failure, such as asymmetric information in capital markets and agency problems. This paper explores the relationship between internet disclosure, profitability...

This study explores the determinants of Internet financial disclosure in the travel and leisure industry. Studying the case of the firms that are listed in the London Stock Exchange, we employ the generalized method of moments in order to investigate the cross-sectional variation in the quantity...

This paper explores the business transactions between a company and its own shareholders, or their affiliates, also known as related party transactions, by compiling a unique panel data set of US public maritime shipping companies for 2011 to 2018, a period of ample liquidity due to extensive...

We discover that in each shipping segment the price of scrap, earnings, and the fleet size are jointly determined. Deploying a Vector Error Correction model, we find that international steel-scrap prices explain ship scrap prices, but the price of nickel, crude oil, and seaborne trade have an...