The agency relationship between managers and shareholders has the potential to influence decision-making in the firm which in turn potentially impacts on firm characteristics such as value and leverage. Prior evidence has demonstrated an association between ownership structure and firm value....

The agency relationship between managers and shareholders has the potential to influence decision-making in the firm which in turn potentially impacts on firm characteristics such as value and leverage. Prior evidence has demonstrated an association between ownership structure and firm value....

The aims of this research is to analyze the effect of firm growth to capital structure with managerial ownership as moderating variable in Service Emiten Company in Jakarta Stock Exchange. The variable used this research are Firm growth and capital structure as the independent variable and...

This paper studies the incentives for transparency under different forms of corporate governance in a context of product market competition. This paper endogenizes the governance and financial structure of firms and determines a strategic decision on the degree of transparency in a context of...

This Paper studies the incentives for transparency under different forms of corporate governance in a context of product market competition. This Paper endogenizes the governance and financial structure of firms and determines a strategic decision on the degree of transparency in a context of...

This paper studies optimal financial contracts and product market competition under a strategic transparency decision. When firms seeking outside finance resort to actively monitored debt in order to commit against opportunistic behaviour, the dominant lender can influence corporate...

This thesis employs data from 34,222 firms in 47 countries from 1987 to 2009, which corresponds to 248,156 firm year observations. Inspired by recent stock price crash risk studies, this thesis differentiates stock price crash risk from traditional stock price risk in explaining capital...

The initial view of the advantages of ownership concentration in joint stock companies was determined by the concern about the opportunistic managerial behavior. The growing importance of knowledge and human capital in the operation of firms shifts the focus of concern: excessive ownership...

Corporate governance aims to reduce expropriation of investors by managers. This thesis identifies and empirically examines three corporate governance mechanisms: cross-listing in the United States, close bank-firm relationships in Germany and corporate ownership structure in an emerging market....

This study is motivated by one of the most prevalent properties of modern corporations: separation of ownership and control. Ownership concentration has been one of the corporate governance mechanisms to solve the agency problem between shareholders and management. Existing literature is mainly...