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German Corporate Law Reform's Impact on Publicly Listed Companies' Performance Through Changes in Ownership Concentration
Pakamore, Mantas - 2011
This paper analyses the German corporate law reform's effect on the publicly listed companies' ownership and performance. First, theoretically plausible implications of the most important laws that were issued 1990-2009 are provided, then an empirical analysis using 1997-2008 panel data...
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Does Board Voting Efficiency Affect Corporate Performance and Governance? Evidence from the Even-Odd Effects of Corporate Board
Deng, Xin - 2013
We analyze a simple model of board voting and find that in comparison to boards with an even number of directors (even boards), those with an odd number of directors (odd boards) improve voting efficiency by better aggregating directors' information. Consistent with the model's implications, our...
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Busy Analysts and Firm Monitoring
Kini, Omesh - 2020
Consistent with the view that “busy” analysts face time and effort constraints in monitoring firms, we find that higher busyness lowers firm valuation. The underlying mechanisms include lower operating performance, higher cost of capital, greater earnings management, excessive CEO...
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The link between firm risk-taking and CEO power of listed firms on the Vietnamese stock market : the role of state ownership
Ngoc Thanh Tran; Thi Ngoc Dung Pham; Dien Duan Nguyen; … - In: Cogent business & management 11 (2024) 1, pp. 1-16
shareholder benefit. However, predicting CEO behaviour remains challenging, especially when considering CEO power (CEOP). Hence … 2010 to 2020. Utilizing the Entropy weight methodology, a CEOP index combines structural, ownership, and expert power … the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Hence, this study explores the interaction between CEO power and firm risk-taking in …
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Bank ownership, board characteristics and performance : evidence from commercial banks in India
Sarkar, Jayati; Sarkar, Subrata - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-30
We study the effect of board governance in state-owned and private banks by undertaking a study of commercial banks in India that has both bank groups. Covering a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012 that witnessed a large number of governance reforms in India, the results of our empirical analysis...
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Firms' rationales for CEO duality : evidence from a mandatory disclosure regulation
Goergen, Marc; Limbach, Peter; Scholz-Daneshgari, Meik - 2022 - [Vers. 02/2019]
Exploiting the 2009 amendments to Regulation S-K, we provide unique evidence on the first-time disclosure of the …
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Institutional investors, corporate governance and firm performance in an emerging market : evidence from Vietnam
Nguyen Thi Hoa Hong; Tran Khanh Linh - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-20
This study examines the relationship between institutional investors, corporate governance, and firm performance in Vietnam. The findings on Vietnamese listed companies indicate that while institutional investors are less likely to hold shares of companies with larger board sizes, Chief...
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Corporate governance and the performance of manufacturing firms in Ghana : does ownership structure matter?
Sarpong-Danquah, Beatrice; Oko-Bensa-Agyekum, Kwasi; … - In: Cogent business & management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19
This study investigates the moderating role of ownership structure in the nexus between corporate governance and the financial performance of manufacturing firms in Ghana. The study uses GLS regression to analyze a panel dataset of 7 manufacturing firms over 14 years. We find a positive and...
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Institutions, Board Structure, and Corporate Performance : Evidence from Chinese Firms
Chen, Tao - 2014
This paper investigates how institutional environment like property rights protection influences the size and composition of corporate boards, and further, how board structure impacts firm performance in China. Using a World Bank survey of 2,400 public and private firms across 18 Chinese cities,...
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Board Independence and Firm Performance in China
Liu, Yu - 2014
We provide the first comprehensive and robust evidence on the relationship between board independence and firm performance in China. We find that independent directors have an overall positive effect on firm operating performance in China. Our findings are robust to a battery of tests, including...
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