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Australia; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Investor Protection, Disclosure, and Financial Literacy
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This study reviews selected issues on investor protection and corporate governance in Australia, and concludes that the corporate governance framework for Australian-listed companies is largely healthy and dynamic. Shareholder activism is an important element of corporate governance because it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243130
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Institutional ownership, liquidity and firm performance
Bougatef, Khemaies; Missaoui, Sahbi - In: American Journal of Finance and Accounting 3 (2014) 2/3/4, pp. 109-127
The study of the relationship between corporate governance and financial performance is an ambiguous theme. Several studies have focused on this topic by defining a relationship between the firm performance and its ownership structure. However, empirical findings did not reach a consensus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761803
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Block-holder ownership, family control and post-listing performance of French IPOs
Chahine, Salim - In: Managerial Finance 33 (2007), pp. 388-400
in issuing firms operating in France, where family-controlled IPOs are a common model of corporate governance. …
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Corporate governance, growth opportunities, and the choices of cross-listings: The case of Chinese ADRs
Pan, Lee-Hsien; Lin, Chien-Ting; Yang, Pei-Chi - In: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 24 (2013) C, pp. 221-234
We examine the inter-relationships among internal governance, firm attributes, and the listing choices of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) for Chinese firms. We find that Chinese ADRs exhibit better performance, higher growth opportunities, and stronger internal governance than domestic firms...
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Stock option fraud prevention in Islamic country: does corporate governance matter?
Ismail, Tariq H.; Abdelmoniem, Zakia - In: Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting 11 (2013), pp. 4-28
Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the extent to which companies in one of the Islamic culture countries, Egypt, are complying with the Islamic implementation of the Anglo-Saxon model of corporate governance and testing the impact, if any, of such compliance on mitigating of stock option...
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A Comparative Analysis of the Legal Obstacles to Institutional Investor Activism in Europe and in the US
Santella, Paolo; Baffi, Enrico; Drago, Carlo; Lattuca, Dino - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
separation of financial risk from voting rights seems to be practiced more by controlling shareholders at the expense of … shareholders by the US regulatory framework. As for Europe, institutional investors' voting pattern is by far the most adversarial … in France, where there is a high incidence of control-enhancing mechanisms. Institutional investors seem to have an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836299
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Israel; Detailed Assessment of IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
Israel’s compliance with International Organization of Securities Commissions’ objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation has been assessed. The regulatory regime is well developed and in most respects is comparable with that of major jurisdictions. For the most part, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242660
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Institutional investors and ownership engagement
Çelik, Serdar; Isaksson, Mats - In: OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends 2013 (2013) 2, pp. 93-114
This article provides a framework for analysing the character and degree of ownership engagement by institutional investors.It argues that the general term “institutional investor” in itself doesn’t say very much about the quality or degree of ownership engagement. It is therefore an...
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Institutionelle Investoren und Corporate Governance: Eine empirische Analyse
Steiger, Max - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998
Eine der herausragenden Entwicklungen auf den internationalen Finanzmarkten in den letzten Jahren ist die Institutionalisierung, d. h. die zunehmende Delegation privater Ersparnisse an professionelle Kapitalanleger - den institutionellen Investoren. Darunter sind private...
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The new European shareholder rights directive: removing barriers and creating opportunities for more shareholder activism and democracy
Rose, Caspar - In: Journal of Management and Governance 16 (2012) 2, pp. 269-284
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