This study investigates the relationship between various attributes of boards of directors on bank performance in light of Saudi corporate governance regulations. The data set of this study is extracted from the annual reports of all 12 banks listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) over a...

The COVID-19 pandemic had unprecedented consequences on businesses and, in particular, small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The aim of this paper is to empirically study the impact of the COVID-19 sanitary crisis on Swiss SMEs two years after the onset of the pandemic. Using a sample of 149 SMEs...

Political economists, both mainstream and Marxist, find it difficult to reconcile the «real» and «financial» appearances of capital. The conventional view is that «real» capital is an objective productive entity; that «finance» merely reflects this reality; and that, unfortunately, the...

This study uses the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) developed by the World Bank to examine a cross-country corporate governance spillover effect among the G7, BRICS, and GIIPS countries during the period of 1996-2014. The panel unit root tests show stationary panel time series properties...

Die US-amerikanische Philosophin Elizabeth Anderson behauptet, dass Unternehmen Diktaturen sind: Die Kapitaleigner herrschten über die Beschäftigten. Kritik an solchen Verhältnissen gäbe es kaum. Das läge daran, dass eine in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften dominierende neoliberale...

It turns out that like the rest of us, billionaires experience wealth inequality. (Individuals who top the Forbes billionaire list are far richer than those at the bottom of the list.) Interestingly, this billionaire wealth concentration fluctuates over time … in tight correlation with the...

Bank Profitability, Globalisation and Barriers to Entrepreneurship. A Panel Data Analysis for Europe and the United States (1999-2007) The crux of the present article is that if corporations (as bank clients) are profitable in a globalised economic environment and there are no barriers to...

By using corporate governance data on 22 publicly traded Turkish companies we estimate the determinants of corporate governance ratings for these companies with a focus on ownership structure. Our results show that company earnings, financial risk and firm size positively influence the corporate...

A considerable number of studies have examined the relationship between corporate governance (CG) structures and corporate performance (e.g., Yermack, 1996; Gompers et al., 2003; Beiner et al., 2006; Renders et al., 2010; Ntim et al., 2012; Kumar & Zattoni 2013; Griffin, et al., 2014). In contrast, despite its...