Recent theoretical and empirical studies suggest that blockholders (shareholders with ownership ≥ 5%) exert governance through the threat of exit. Blockholders have strong incentives to gather private information and sell their shares when managers are perceived to underperform. To prevent...

Despite developments of recent theoretical and numerous empirical studies on the policies effectively adopted by companies, the dividend distribution policy (DDP) remains largely unexplained. In this regard, the main purpose of the current study is to empirically examine the effects of both CEO...

In this paper we provide evidence that the post-issue accounting profitability of firms underwritten by bank affiliated underwriters that are also borrowers from the same bank in the IPO (Initial Public Offerings) year is significantly better than average, but that the stock price performance of...

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since at least the Great Depression, there is significant variation in the cross-section of stock returns of large banks across the world during that period. We use this variation to evaluate the importance of factors...

We propose and test an alternative explanation for the existence of the positive governance-return relation in the 1990s and its disappearance in the 2000s: The governance-return relation is positive under good states of the economy and negative under bad states. Corporate governance mitigates...

Using a large hand-collected sample of all blockholders (ownership ≥ 5%) of S&P 1500 firms for the years 2002–2009, we first document significant individual blockholder effects on earnings management (accrual-based earnings management, real earnings management, and restatements). This...

Although previous empirical evidence concludes that the firm performance is positively related to executive compensation, but sometimes reality indicates otherwise. Many companies providing a huge compensation package for their executives, in fact, have the company value tend to be normal or...

We propose and test an alternative explanation for the existence of the positive governance-return relation in the 1990s and its disappearance in the 2000s: The governance-return relation is procyclical. Corporate governance mitigates investment distortions so that firms with strong governance...

This paper examines the rationale behind shareholder loyalty in the case of family owned Groups. We have analyzed the case of “Reliance Group”, the largest private sector company in India, which is headed by the Ambani Family. We have compared its performance with its competitors in the...

The current literature on firm ownership around the world shows that concentrated ownership with only one or a few controlling owners is common, especially in many European and Asian countries. The dispersed ownership has proven to be uncommon and even countries with supposed dispersed ownership...