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This article investigates the determinants of boards’ financial expertise using a sample of 95 non-financial French listed firms.
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accountability and good central bank governance. It outlines the motivations for the establishment of audit committees in commercial … bank. The paper focuses on the functions of an audit committee, since the terminology of the governance structure is often … implications for central bank legislation. …
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The purpose of this research is to analyse some key issues in corporate governance in Islamic banks. This governance has been analysed almost exclusively in the context of conventional banking markets. Islamic banking shows a fundamental departure from conventional banking. Our objective is also...
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A good corporate governance framework should combine transparency, accountability and integrity and this requires knowledge of beneficial ownership. The protection of minority investors and other stakeholder protection will be challenging without access to reliable information about the...
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There are two main sources of confusion in the public corporate governance debate. One is the confusion about the role of public policy intervention. The other is a lack of empirical knowledge about the corporate landscape where rules are supposed to be implemented and the functioning of...
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Investor confidence in financial markets depends in large part on the existence of an accurate disclosure regime that provides transparency in the beneficial ownership and control structures of publicly listed companies. This is particularly true for corporate governance systems that are...
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This article reviews Germany's corporate governance system and the effectiveness of recent reforms. Since the early 1990s far-reaching reforms have complemented the traditional stakeholder system with important elements of the shareholder system. Instead of taking a view on the superiority of...
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and Hungary). The World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development published a series of reports on …
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<p>In the shareholder theory of firms, the company's assets are the property of the shareholders, and managers are … viewed as agents of the shareholders with all of the enforcement difficulties associated with agency relationships, but … shareholders in most companies. Obviously, Slovenian companies have changed their strategic behaviour to reflect the interests of …
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and their impact on shareholders' wealth during the period from 2001 to 2008. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 762 … focusing on open shareholder activists to investigating passive institutional shareholders. …
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