Part I: Corporate Ownership Structure and Corporate Governance -- Part II: Issues in Executive Compensation -- Part III: Boards of Directors: Roles, duties, and Responsibilities -- Part IV: New Trends in Corporate Governance: Towards a More Effective and Sustainable Governance

This paper investigates whether ownership structure and board characteristics determine CEO turnover in a sample of largest French-listed firms from 1994 to 2001. The results show that CEO turnover is negatively and significantly related to prior accounting and stock performance. Controlling for...

We investigate whether managerial ownership enhances firm value by exploiting exogenous variation resulting from stock price reactions to blockholder deaths. We find, first, that the average stock price reaction to the sudden death of inside blockholders ranges from -5% for small ownership...

This study investigates the effect of ownership and control on firm value using exogenous variation resulting from stock price reactions to the sudden death of individual blockholders. Stock market reactions range from -5% to 4% for inside blockholders as ownership increases and from 0% to -2%...