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This paper studies the relationship between corporate governance and the systemic risk of financial institutions … governance mechanisms can explain the cross-sectional variation in systemic risk around the recent financial crisis. Our … structures and boards of directors are associated with higher levels of systemic risk. Thus, our results suggest that good …
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risk. I find that banks with higher CSR scores are less risky. This is driven by their external CSR investments and not by …, lower valuations, and greater risk than banks with a more balanced distribution between internal and external CSR … likely to contribute to systemic macroeconomic risk. …
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Should boards of financial firms be blamed for the financial crisis? Using a large sample of data on nonfinancial and financial firms for the period 1996-2007, I document that the governance of financial firms is, on average, not obviously worse than in nonfinancial firms. In fact, using simple...
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future development of new research paradigms in law and finance. Finally, this Article advocates a more risk-based approach …
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On both sides of the Atlantic, greed, the financial services industry and deregulation have been blamed for the ‘Global Financial Crisis’. The genuinely unethical conduct underlying it was actually much more fundamental, pervasive and pernicious; it was positively encouraged by lax fiscal...
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monitor the over-emphasis on the maximization of short-term shareholder value without relativizing the risk taken to achieve …
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the weakness of legal means of minimizing risk and highlighting dangers in major banking corporations. Gatekeeper failure … sector attention on the poor risk models used by banks. This ultimately led to the passage of new Banking legislation in the …
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evidence shows that the corporate governance issues as risk management, remuneration, shareholder activism and board …
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Based on a review of international and regional responses to the global financial and economic crisis and its implications for finance in Asia, Douglas Arner and Lotte Schou-Zibell draw lessons for Asian financial systems with regard to the scope of regulation; financial standards; supervision,...
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