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The regulation of Islamic banking in Mauritius
Mooneeram-Chadee, Varsha - In: ISRA International Journal of Islamic Finance 12 (2020) 2, pp. 265-280
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the main components of the regulatory framework for Islamic banking in Mauritius. This small island state of the Indian Ocean aspires to host Islamic banking products while diversifying the range of financial services offered within its hybrid...
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Impact of quality corporate governance on firm performance: A ten year perspective
Azeem, Muhammad; ul Hassan, Masood; Kouser, Rehana - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 7 (2013) 3, pp. 656-670
Corporate governance remained most discussed issue in the 2000s during accounting standard adoption, and Asian financial crisis. This study intends to contribute toward the impact of corporate governance features on the firm performance in presence of certain firm specific attributes and...
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The effects of corporate governance on environmental sustainability reporting: empirical evidence from South Asian countries
Masud, Md. Abdul Kaium; Nurunnabi, Mohammad; Bae, Seong Mi - In: Asian Journal of Sustainability and Social … 3 (2018) 3, pp. 1-26
-country examination of CG and ESRP in this region. The study takes three SA countries (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and 88 listed …
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Institutional impacts on corporate social responsibility: A comparative analysis of New Zealand and Pakistan
Khan, Majid; Lockhart, James C.; Bathurst, Ralph - In: International Journal of Corporate Social … 3 (2018) 4, pp. 1-13
Pakistan and New Zealand. Institutional factors are normally categorised as being either formal or informal. It is argued that … CSR by business through its adherence to acceptable governance praxis. Corporate regulation in Pakistan is heavily … Commission of Pakistan. The informal national institutions in both countries also play a vital role in the disparity of …
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Corporate governance, political connections, and bank performance
Haris, Muhammad; Yao, Hongxing; Tariq, Gulzara; Javaid, … - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 7 (2019) 4, pp. 1-37
the profitability of banks in Pakistan. The study uses the data of 26 domestic banks over the latest and large period of …
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The Transmission of Monetary Policy through Conventional and Islamic Banks
Zaheer, Sajjad; Ongena, Steven; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2012
.e., conventional versus Islamic, in Pakistan between 2002:II to 2010:I. We find that following a monetary contraction, small banks with …
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Cross-ownership among firms: Some determinants of the separation of ownership from control
Ritzberger, Klaus; Shorish, Jamsheed - 2002
This paper demonstrates that the current literature on cross-ownership among firms underestimates the true degree of separation between cash flow rights and voting rights. We use accounting identities to define coefficients of control, such that any (direct or indirect) control of a firm may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292758
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A revealed preference approach: To understanding corporate governance problems : evidence from Canada
Chirinko, Robert S.; Schaller, Huntley - 2003
Empire-building by managers implies that they use a lower effective discount rate in making investment decisions. We use actual investment decisions to measure the gap between the manager's effective discount rate and the market rate. Our empirical work is based on panel data for 193 Canadian...
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Making corporate governance work
Smith, Roy C. - 2002
This paper discusses the current state of and issues related to corporate governance in America after the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. It suggests additional steps necessary to realize improvement in the ways in corporations govern themselves and regulators must operate to make the...
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New evidence on ownership structures in Germany
Köke, Jens - 1999
Ownership structures are an important element of the theory explaining corporate governance. This study presents detailed descriptive evidence on the ownership structures of German manufacturing firms. It addresses several shortcomings of the previous German empirical literature: First, we study...
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