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consequences. It is equally important to consider the valuation effect of state expropriation risk as well as its interaction with … operate under some degree of state expropriation risk, receive a significantly lower premium. The target shareholders are not …
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Risk management and oversight have long been recognized as core corporate governance issues and have gained renewed … on risk oversight and risk management. This article is the first to examine the intersections between corporate … governance and risk regulation in China from a comparative perspective. It surveys corporate governance tools that have been …
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knowledge, affect the relationship between corporate governance and the risk of bankruptcy. We find that having larger boards … reduces the risk of bankruptcy only for complex firms. Our results also suggest that the proportion of inside directors on the … board is inversely associated with the risk of bankruptcy in firms that require more specialist knowledge, and that the …
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This research examines the relationships between government economic policy uncertainty and corporate cash holdings and the value of cash. We find robust evidence that policy uncertainty is positively related to corporate cash holdings due to firms' precautionary motives and investment delays....
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focuses on changes at a specific target company, and (2) systematic risk activism, which seeks to reduce the systematic risk … in a portfolio and thereby benefit diversified investors. Typically, such a systematic risk campaign may force a … carbon emissions or undertaking climate risk reforms). But, systematic risk activism faces an inherent difficulty: the party …
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disclosure of the regulation indicates that the most suggestive mechanism is shareholders’ sentiment of managerial agency risk …
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In this paper we investigate risk governance in 60 major international financial institutions and its influence on risk … (calculated from equity returns). Risk governance has increased significantly during our sample period. We find the following … variables to be important in determining risk outcomes in subsequent periods: inclusion of the CRO in the senior executive team …
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This paper aims to investigate the behaviour of the board regarding the effective identification and governance of risk … achieved by constructing a risk governance index for a given corporation. The various elements affecting risk governance by the … board of directors are captured in the risk governance index. For each board, we assign a value for each risk governance …
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This paper conducts a systematic analysis of the effect of CEO tenure on risk-taking. We document an overall positive … relation between tenure and risk-taking. The results are inconsistent with viewing tenure primarily as an indicator of human … and recent theoretical work, we show that the effect of CEO tenure on risk-taking depends on the information asymmetry …
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Based on theoretical advice and empirical evidence suggesting that risk-taking in asset allocation enhances pension … take more risk by investing heavily in equities and allocating a smaller share of the plan assets to cash, government debt …
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