The study verifies, between march 2005 and march 2006, if there is any difference between the stock yields of a sample of companieslisted in Bovespa that adopt the principles of Corporate Governance, in different levels, in relation to the companies of the traditionalmarket. The data were...

Als zentralem Bestandteil der internationalen Finanzarchitektur kommt dem Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF) heutzutage immer öfter die Aufgabe zu, bei Verschuldungskrisen souveräner Staaten, insbesondere weit fortgeschrittener Schwellen- und Transformationsländer, als multilateraler...

Hintergrund der Untersuchung ist die zunehmende Bedeutung von Humankapital als wettbewerbsentscheidendem Produktionsfaktor in modernen humankapitalintensiven Unternehmungen. Es stellt sich die Frage nach den Auswirkungen der Bedeutungszunahme und der Regelung des „Primärhumankapitals“, also...

We conduct an experiment to examine how lending decisions are affected by lender perceptions of reporting and governance quality. We perform a set of experiments to determine whether lenders are sensitive to the quality of governance as measured by board composition along multiple dimensions,...

Executive pay research has traditionally focused on salary, severance payments and longtermincentives. A systematic rigorous empirical examination of short-term annualbonuses is lacking. To address this omission, this research empirically examines therelationship between short-term bonuses and...

The increase in the number of financial restatements in recent years has resulted in a significant decrease in the amount of market capitalization for restated companies. Prior literature does not differentiate between single and multiple restatements announcements. This research investigates...

This paper addresses the presence of outside directors in family firms in India examining the generation of the firm and years of operation. Aspects of corporate leadership such as family member as CEO, as well as the CEO's role in a founding family firm, are considered in relation to financial...