The adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gave birth to a new EU body - the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), superseding the former advisory Article 29 Working Party (WP29). The institutional reform was one of the key pillars of the EU data protection overhaul carried...

The aim of this research is to assess the role of the board of directors in determining CEO’s compensation in the context of listed European companies for 3 fiscal years (2016-2017-2018). Based on a sample extracted from 11 European countries (France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland,...

We investigate the interplay between creditor financing and the smoothness of earnings reported by European private firms and document how heterogeneous debt-contracting infrastructures across Europe moderate this relation. Most European private firms are owner-manager run enterprises with...