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Large shareholders and corporate governance
Frantz, Pascal; Instefjord, Norvald - In: Economics of Governance 10 (2009) 4, pp. 297-321
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Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Fried, Jesse; Walker, David I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
constraints that act on these processes, leave managers with considerable power to shape their own pay arrangements. Examining the …
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Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye; Fried, Jesse - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
instrument for addressing the agency problem between managers and shareholders but also as part of the agency problem itself … managers. As a result, managers wield substantial influence over their own pay arrangements, and they have an interest in … reducing the saliency of the amount of their pay and the extent to which that pay is de-coupled from managers’ performance. We …
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Power, rent extraction, and executive compensation
Bebchuk, Lucian; Fried, Jesse - In: CESifo Forum 3 (2002) 3, pp. 23-28
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The association between disclosure of forward-looking information and corporate governance mechanisms: Evidence from the UK before the financial crisis period
Al-Najjar, Basil; Abed, Suzan - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 29 (2014), pp. 578-595
Purpose –This paper aims to witness the importance of corporate governance mechanisms and investigates the relationship between the quality of disclosure of forward-looking information in the narrative sections of annual reports and the governance mechanisms for non-financial UK companies....
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Market Reaction to Voluntary and Mandatory Announcements of Independent Director Appointments
Lin, Hueh-Chen; Huang, Chin-Sheng; Yang, Jack J. W. - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 5 (2015) 1, pp. 125-135
In this paper, we use a unique natural experimental setting to examine the market value of both voluntary and mandatory independent director appointments using a sample of Taiwanese listed firms. We find a significantly positive stock price reaction when a firm announces it is appointing...
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Impact of Corporate Governance on Performance of Firms: A Case Study of Cement Industry in Pakistan
Cheema, Khaliq Ur Rehman; Din, Muhammad Sadat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This research paper throws light on the relationship between the corporate governance and Firm financial performance in Cement industry of Pakistan. This study gives attention to three variables which include board Size, Family controlled firms, and CEO duality. Firm’s performance is measured...
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Relationship between Corporate Governance Score and Stock Prices: Evidence from KSE- 30 Index Companies
Malik, Saif Ullah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The price of stock like any other commodity goes up and down due to a number of factors. Corporate governance is one of important determinants of stock price. This paper makes an attempt to study exclusively the relationship between corporate governance score and stock prices of a company. The...
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The effect of board and chairperson independence: an examination of CEO dismissal in Australia
Mackay, Will; Shan, Yuan George; Howieson, Bryan - In: International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and … 11 (2015) 2, pp. 130-160
The purpose of the paper is to examine the effectiveness of board and chairperson independence as a corporate governance mechanism. We examine 4,637 Australian firms over the period 2004 to 2008. The study presents a multinomial model of CEO dismissal. Our results indicate that independent...
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The Relationship between Environmental Reporting and Corporate Governance Characteristics of Romanian Listed Entities
IENCIU, Ionel-Alin - In: Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems 11 (2012) 2, pp. 267-294
Within this study, we have focused on factors related to the entity, such as the internal characteristics, consisting mainly in how the entity is managed, in order to identify the existence of certain associations between the characteristics of corporate governance and the existence of...
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