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Governance in financial institutions : key elements and preventing the failures
Srivastava, Ashish - In: Asian journal of economics and banking : AJEB 7 (2023) 3, pp. 424-434
Purpose - The need for robust governance standards in financial institutions requires no overemphasis. However …, instances of governance failures have been a recurring global phenomenon. This paper examines the key elements of governance in … financial institutions, evaluates reasons for failures and suggests ways to strengthen governance and prevent such failures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014449757
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Bankers’ Pay after the 2008 Crisis : Regulatory Reforms in the US and the EU
Ferrarini, Guido - 2013
We examine the political dynamics which led to the codification of the Principles and Standards for sound compensation practices at financial institutions at international (G 20) level and to their subsequent implementation on both sides of the Atlantic. We show that the regulation of bankers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091649
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Quack Corporate Governance, Round III? Bank Board Regulation Under the New European Capital Requirement Directive
Enriques, Luca - 2014
Capital Requirements Directive (CRD IV), tackles, amongst other things, the perceived pre-crisis failings in the governance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056692
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A Behavioral Approach to Financial Supervision, Regulation, and Central Banking
Khan, Ashraf - 2018
This paper describes how behavioral elements are relevant to financial supervision,regulation, and central banking. It focuses on (1) behavioral effects of norms (social, legal,and market); (2) behavior of others (internalization, identification, and compliance); and(3) psychological biases. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912488
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Collective Branding and the Origins of Investment Management Regulation : 1936-1942
Morley, John - 2013
in the late 1930s had any substantial interest in the governance or control of their portfolio companies. This paper also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093864
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The Governance of Financial Regulation : Reform Lessons from the Recent Crisis
Levine, Ross - 2013
There was a systemic failure of financial regulation: senior policymakers repeatedly enacted and implemented policies that destabilised the global financial system. They maintained these policies even as they learned of the consequences of their policies during the decade before the crisis. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094089
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Privatization, Corporate Control and Regulatory Reform: The case of Telefonica
Bel, Germa; Trillas, Francesc - EconWPA - 2004
This study analyzes the interaction of agency problems in public policy and of agency problems inside the firm: it investigates the case of a large privatized firm subject to many policy constraints. The last steps of Telefonica's privatization were designed to promote a disperse ownership and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413213
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Firm size, sovereign governance, and value creation: Evidence from the acquirer size effect
Humphery-Jenner, Mark; Powell, Ronan - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 26 (2014) C, pp. 57-77
This paper examines the relationship between acquirer size, sovereign governance, and value-creation in acquisitions … primarily from agency and entrenchment problems. However, in weak governance environments, size might have off-setting benefits … magnitude in weak governance markets. Compared with larger acquirers in strong governance countries, large acquirers in weak …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010776950
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Agenda for Building a New Financial Market Architecture
Schäfer, Dorothea - 2009
Since the summer of 2007, participants in financial markets have been confronted by a crisis of their own making. In order to prevent the recurrence of a similar crisis in the future, the G-20 nations, at their finance summit in Washington on 15 November 2008, resolved to "ensure that all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335544
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Agenda for a New Financial Market Architecture
Schäfer, Dorothea - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 7, pp. 41-49
Since the summer of 2007, participants in financial markets have been confronted by a crisis of their own making. In order to prevent the recurrence of a similar crisis in the future, the G-20 nations, at their finance summit in Washington on 15 November 2008, resolved to "ensure that all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601260