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Busy Boards and Corporate Earnings Management : An International Analysis
Ferris, Stephen P. - 2020
Examining a set of firms from 46 countries, we explore whether busy independent directors, CEOs and audit committees effectively monitor corporate financial reporting. We find that firms with a higher proportion of busy independent directors or busy CEOs more extensively manage their earnings....
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Dividend policy : a selective review of results from around the world
Booth, Laurence D.; Zhou, Jun - In: Global finance journal 34 (2017), pp. 1-15
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Information asymmetry, agency costs, and payout policies : An international analysis of IFRS adoption and the global financial crisis
Bessler, Wolfgang; Gonenc, Halit; Hernandez Tinoco, Mario - In: Economic systems 47 (2023) 4, pp. 1-19
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Internal pyramid structure, judicial efficiency, firm-level governance and dividend policy
Shah, Muhammad Hashim; Zuoping, Xiao; Abdullah - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 83 (2023), pp. 764-785
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The role of foreign institutional investors in restraining earnings management activities across countries
Lel, Ugur - In: Journal of international business studies : JIBS ; an … 50 (2019) 6, pp. 895-922
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Board Reforms and Dividend Policy : International Evidence
Bae, Kee-Hong - 2020
We study the impact of board reforms implemented in 40 countries worldwide on corporate dividend policy. Using a … difference-in-differences analysis, we find that firms pay higher dividends following the reforms. The increase in dividend … external governance mechanisms. Our findings corroborate the dividend outcome model, which postulates that board reforms …
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The role of institutional investors in improving board of director attributes around the world
Alshabibi, Badar - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 4, pp. 1-33
This paper investigates the role of institutional investors in the improvement of corporate governance for the companies in which they invest (investee companies) using evidence about the attributes of boards of directors across 15 countries. Furthermore, this paper examines the extent to which...
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Board demographic, structural diversity, and eco-innovation : international evidence
Zaman, Rashid; Asiaei, Kaveh; Nadeem, Muhammad; Malik, … - In: Corporate governance : an international review 32 (2024) 3, pp. 374-390
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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending : theory and empirical evidence
Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009
We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...
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Earnings management by top Chinese listed firms in response to the global financial crisis
Xu, Guanglu Luke; Ji, Xudong - In: International journal of accounting and information … 24 (2016) 3, pp. 226-251
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