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Corporate Governance and Investor Reactions to Seasoned Equity Offerings
Huang, Rongbing; Tompkins, James G - 2009
We study the role of corporate governance in abnormal returns around announcements of seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) by publicly traded U. S. firms from 2001 - 2004. We find that investors react more positively for firms in which different people hold the CEO and board chairman positions. We...
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Enterprise Risk Management: An Empirical Analysis of Factors Associated with the Extent of Implementation
Beasley, Mark S.; Clune, Richard; Hermanson, Dana - 2005
Enterprise risk management (ERM) has emerged as a new paradigm for managing the portfolio of risks that face organizations, and policy makers continue to focus on mechanisms to improve corporate governance and risk management. Despite these developments, there is little research on factors...
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Group Polarization on Corporate Boards: Theory and Evidence on Board Decisions about Acquisition Premiums, Executive Compensation, and Diversification.
Zhu, Hongquan - 2009
This dissertation examines how a fundamental group decision-making bias referred to as group polarization may influence boards’ major strategic decisions (i.e. acquisition premiums, executive compensation, and diversification) and the diffusion of practices through interlock networks. I begin...
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Governance Structures, Ethnicity, and Audit Fees of Malaysian Listed Firms
Yatim, Puan; Kent, Pamela; Clarkson, Peter - 2006
This study examines the association between external audit fees, and board and audit committee characteristics of 736 Malaysian listed firms. It is hypothesised that good corporate governance practices reduce auditors' risk assessments, resulting in lower audit fees. Drawing on the existence of...
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The Effect of Governance on Credit Decisions and Perceptions of Reporting Reliability
Holder-Webb, Lori; Sharma, Divesh S. - 2010
We conduct an experiment to examine how lending decisions are affected by lender perceptions of reporting and governance quality. We perform a set of experiments to determine whether lenders are sensitive to the quality of governance as measured by board composition along multiple dimensions,...
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Essays in Corporate Governance: Issues and Evidence from Equity Carve-Outs
Kayanga, Andrew Mulindwa - 2008
This dissertation consists of three essays examining the relation between corporate governance and firm performance. The theme of this study is that the widely documented long-term underperformance in equity carve-outs can be partly explained by weak corporate governance. The first essay...
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Impact of M & A on firm performance in India: Implications for concentration of ownership and insider entrenchment
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Selarka, Ekta - 2008
examines the impact of M & A on profitability of firms in India, where the corporate landscape is dominated by family-owned and … results indicate that, during the 1995-2002 period, M & A in India led to deterioration in firm performance. We also find that …-owned and group affiliated firms in India. …
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When Managers Bypass Shareholder Approval of Board Appointments: Evidence from the Private Security Market?
Arena, Matteo; Ferris, Stephen P - 2007
approval underperform compared to firms that obtain it. Overall our findings suggest that managers avoid shareholder approval …
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Die Relevanz der in Deutschland obligatorischen Informationen zur Corporate Governance
Kristian Köpke - 2011
Die Europäische Union hat es sich zum Ziel gemacht, auf eine gute und vor allem effektive Corporate Governance hinzuwirken. Mit dieser Zielsetzung wurde in einer Abänderungsrichtlinie festgelegt, dass kapitalmarktorientierte Unternehmen künftig umfassende Informationen (das sog. Corporate...
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Antecedents and consequences of pay disparity between CEO and non-CEO executives [electronic resource] /
Pissaris, Seema. - Florida Atlantic University.College of … - 2008
This dissertation investigates the antecedents and consequences to pay disparity between the CEO and non-CEO executives from an equity-based perspective. While the principles of agency theory suggest that CEOs are granted higher compensation packages to better align their motives to those of the...
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