This study investigates the level, structure, and pay-for-performance relationship of CEO compensation in Korean non-life insurance companies. We find that seniority plays an important role in setting CEO compensation practices and that performance-based pay, such as bonus, is more effective...

This study examines the impact the global financial crisis had on the value relevance of GAAP and non-GAAP earnings. We adopt the Ohlson (1995) valuation and CAR models to test the value relevance and information content of alternative earnings measures. We use six different earnings measures...

This study investigates whether culture in general and religion in particular mitigate earnings management. Using a cross-country data set, empirical tests based on rank regressions indicate that earnings management is unrelated to both religious affiliation and the degree of religiosity. In...

The main purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze the characteristics of infrastructure projects which have private equity investments in them. A comprehensive sample of 2821 infrastructure projects (worth US$1.4 trillion) globally from 1990 till 2009 has been examined in this paper....

The questions of who should define the goals and objectives of a firm, and whether they should be defined in such a way so as to give a certain level of recognition to the well-being of other groups interested in the long-term success of the company and not only to the interests of the...

The present paper looks into the question of whether it provides the investor diversification benefits to include sukuk (Islamic bonds) in their portfolio of bonds, and what these might be quantitatively. Analysed are sovereign bonds of Bahrain, Pakistan, Qatar, Malaysia, and the UAE. The...