The upward trend in women’s representation on executive and supervisory boards of major companies in Germany continued in 2022, although the overall momentum has slowed yet again. Growth on executive boards in particular has slowed, as the most recent DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer...

Much contemporary analysis has concluded that the recent financial crisis and bank failures were, inter alia, the result of a breakdown in corporate governance regimes and market discipline. Reform of corporate governance structures and remuneration incentives is at the heart of regulatory...

We examine the nexus between blockholding and bank performance in Nigeria given the narrowing size blockholding and absence of institutional mechanisms for effective activism. We employ the system-Generalised Method of Moments (system-GMM) using annual bank-level data from 2007 to 2019 and find...