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15.997 Advanced Corporate Risk Management, Spring 2007

Parsons, John E.; Obizhaeva, Anna - 2007

Opportunity for group study by graduate students on current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. From the course home page: Course Description This is a course on how corporations make use of the insights and tools of risk management. Most courses on derivatives,...

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Board composition and corporate performance: How the Australian experience informs contrasting theories of corporate governance

Kiel, Geoffrey C.; Nicholson, Gavin J. - 2003

In many respects, Australian boards more closely approach normative best practice guidelines for corporate governance than boards in other Western countries. Do Australian firms then demonstrate a board demographic-organisational performance link that has not been found in other economies? We...

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Essays in the theory of voting power

Steffen, Frank - 2002

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Aufsichtsräte deutscher Aktiengesellschaften: Zusammensetzung, Interventionsaktivitäten, Performance

Vetter, Karin - 2011

Den Aufsichtsräten innerhalb des deutschen Corporate Governance Systems ist in den letzten Jahren erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit zugekommen. Es wurden Empfehlungen und gesetzliche Vorschriften formuliert, die die Zusammensetzung des Aufsichtsratsgremiums sowie dessen Tätigkeiten betreffen. Diesem...

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Disclosure of executive remuneration in large banks

Schott, Max - 2008

The first part of this thesis analyzes and quantifies the magnitude of executive remuneration disclosure of the worlds 245 largest exchange-listed banks, using annual reports as the primary source of information, and the diverse disclosure rules in the 31 countries in which these banks are...

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Zur Rolle der Printmedien bei der Steuerung und ?berwachung von Unternehmen. Eine Analyse der Berichterstattung ?ber die Einhaltung der Grunds?tze des Deutschen Corporate Governanc...

Schmid, Christoph - 2006

Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Feststellung, dass sich die ?konomische Theorie trotz der mehr als 160j?hrigen Geschichte gewerbsm??iger medialer Berichterstattung ?ber das Geschehen rund um M?rkte und Unternehmen lange Zeit kaum mit den Massenmedien besch?ftigt hat. Dabei kann...

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Determinants of financial instrument disclosure patterns of Australian listed resource firms pre- and post-IFRS adoption

Taylor, Grantley J. - 2008

This thesis investigates the pattern of Financial Instrument Disclosures (FIDs) within the annual reports of Australian listed extractive resource companies (mining and petroleum) over a four year longitudinal period encompassing the 2003 to 2006 financial years. This is an important period to...

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Do board contacts matter? : an analysis of the relationship between boards of directors’ ties and the performance of Australia’s largest companies.

Smith, Kevin John - 2009

Boards of directors are thought to provide access to a wealth of knowledge and resources for the companies they serve, and are considered important to corporate governance. Under the Resource Based View (RBV) of the firm (Wernerfelt, 1984) boards are viewed as a strategic resource available to...

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Corporate governance mechanisms and earnings management in transitional countries – evidence from Chinese listed firms

Lin, Teng - 2011

identifies two factors: CEO power and board power. CEO power is the factor which consists of CEO duality and turnover, and board … power is composed of board size and board activity. The results of CEO power show that if a Chinese listed company has CEO … negative relationship between board power and accruals indicate that large boards with frequent meetings can be associated with …

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The role of the audit committee and institutional investors in constraining earnings management : evidence from Chinese firms listed in Hong Kong

Lin, Philip Teng; Hutchinson, Marion R.; Percy, Majella - 2009

Using data from 2004 to 2008, we find that an audit committee is an important monitoring mechanism as audit committee independence, expertise and size are associated with reduced levels of abnormal accruals, our measure of earnings management. This study also attempts to discern when the...

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