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Profitabilitäts-, Risiko- und Effizienzmaße auf. Im Hinblick auf die Bonusniveaus der Bankmitarbeiter zeigt sich eine hohe … needed how banks are governed and how bank governance is associated with performance and risk taking. This report deals with …, risk and efficiency. Compensation analyses show strong variation in compensation schemes between banks and bank divisions …
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This study investigates the determinants of changes in corporate ownership and firm failure, taking into account different types of sellers and buyers of control blocks. For a large panel of German corporations we find that firms are more likely to fail or to be sold when performance is poor,...
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[enter Abstract Body]We use a sample of randomly selected CRSP-listed firms to explore the cross-sectional determinants of corporate board size. We find that the average number of directors on boards differs significantly across industries. Further evidence indicates that these differences are...
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The question of whether the CEO should also serve as chairman of the board is one of the most hotly debated issues in the recent corporate governance discussion. While agencytheoretic arguments advocate a separation of decision and control functions, the empirical evidence focusing on U.S....
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Chhaochharia and Grinstein (2009) estimate that CEO pay decreases by 17% more in firms whose boards were not compliant with the recent NYSE/NASDAQ independence requirements than in firms that were compliant. We document that 65% of the magnitude is driven by a single outlier. All our attempts to...
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Chhaochharia and Grinstein (JF, 2009) estimate that CEO pay decreases by 17% more in firms that were not compliant with the recent NYSE/NASDAQ board independence requirement than in firms that were compliant. We document that 74% of this magnitude is attributable to two outliers out of 865...
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Using Chhaochharia's and Grinstein's (JF, 2009) data and methodology, Guthrie, Sokolowsky, and Wan (JF, 2010) document that compensation committee independence leads to an increase in executive pay, and that the increase is concentrated in firms with powerful monitors. These findings stand in...
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target nations with relatively low political risk, the interaction between government-affiliation and change in political …
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the investors to the risk of expropriation by investee countries and corporate insiders …
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This research analyzes 262 cases of tender offer bid (TOB) in which the acquired companies were expected to remain listed after the deals, from among TOB deals conducted between 1990 and 2011, and estimates the value of private benefits of control in Japan based on the premiums paid relative to...
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