This paper finds that CEO stock options influence the choice, amount, and timing of funds distributed as a buyback. These results favor a managerial opportunism motive for buybacks over other theories and support two key research expectations - that buybacks impose option-induced agency costs on...

Using a sample of management forecasts, we find that higher CEO and CFO equity compensation and lower institutional ownership concentration, percentage of independent director, and number of analyst following induce managers to release significantly more bad news, downward biased management...

This study investigates the relation between corporate governance and disclosure quality in a context of principal-principal conflicts and poor investor protection. Overall, the empirical results suggest that minority expropriation risk harms disclosure quality. Specifically, we find that...

To date, research which integrates corporate governance and risk management has been limited. Yet, risk exposure and management are increasingly becoming the core function of modern business enterprises in various sectors and industries domestically and globally. Risk identification and...

Agency conflicts between investors are particularly severe in the presence of high family and block-holder ownership. By focusing on a setting characterised by high ownership concentration, we study the role of independent directors in promoting transparency through increased disclosure. In our...

Combining databases with unique strengths I show that stray firms, i.e. those lacking a controlling owner, have lower disclosure in financial reports. This finding illustrates managers' preference to withhold information (“the fundamental agency problem”). I contribute to the literature by...

We use a dynamic model of financing decisions to measure agency conflicts for a large panel of 12,652 firms from 14 countries. Our estimates show that agency conflicts are large and vary significantly across firms and countries. Differences in agency conflicts are largely due to differences in...

The present study endeavours to perform a systematic review of the literature related to the impact of corporate governance on dividend policy in the last two decades. This study uses the systematic literature review process . 143 articles were identified initially and subsequently further...