Purpose -- This paper investigates whether firm-level corporate governance has an influence on the equity financing patterns in an emerging economy such as Bangladesh.Design/methodology/approach -- The regression framework uses a questionnaire survey-based corporate governance index (CGI)...

This paper investigates the influence of firm-level corporate governance on financial performance of the listed firms in Bangladesh. Agency theory suggests that better corporate governance reduces expropriation costs, which in turn enhances investors' confidence in the firm's future cash flow...

This paper examines the effect of ownership structure on bank risk-taking and performance in emerging economies using India as a case study. We use generalised method of moments (GMM) estimation technique to analyse an unbalanced panel dataset covering 217 bank-year observations from 2008 to...