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The role of monitoring mechanisms towards company’s performance

Jaffar, Romlah; Abdul-Shukor, Zaleha - In: Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies 6 (2016) 4, pp. 408-428

Purpose Past studies show that companies’ connection with the government (or politically connected companies (PCCs)) contributed negatively to their financial performance. The grabbing hand theory suggests that political connection demand companies to serve political and social obligation that...

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Accounting conservatism, corporate governance and political connections

Mohammed, Nor Farizal; Ahmed, Kamran; Ji, Xu-Dong - In: Asian Review of Accounting 25 (2017) 2, pp. 288-318

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between accounting conservatism, corporate governance and political connection in listed firms in Malaysia where political influence plays a significant role in the capital market and in many business dealings....

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A quantile regression analysis on corporate governance and the cost of bank loans: a research note

Chi, Wuchun; Huang, Huichi; Xie, Hong - In: Review of Accounting and Finance 14 (2015) 1, pp. 2-19

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether there is heterogeneity in the relationship between the bank loan interest rate and its determinants using the quantile regression method and to reconcile some conflicting findings in prior literature. Design/methodology/approach – First, the...

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Corruption, debt financing and corporate ownership

Lemma, Tesfaye T. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 42 (2015) 3, pp. 433-461

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of perceived corruption on debt financing and ownership structure decisions of firms within the context of ten African countries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyses 15-year (1996-2010) data pertaining to 556...

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Industry peer effect and the maturity structure of corporate debt

Duong, Hong Kim; Ngo, Anh Duc; McGowan, Carl B. - In: Managerial Finance 41 (2015) 7, pp. 714-733

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of industry peers in shaping firm debt maturity decisions. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use idiosyncratic equity shocks as instruments to disentangle industry fixed and peer effects. The authors also employ a three-stage...

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The relation between excess control and cost of capital

Bozec, Yves; Laurin, Claude; Meier, Iwan - In: International Journal of Managerial Finance 10 (2014) 1, pp. 93-114

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between dominant shareholders, whose voting rights exceed cash flow rights (excess control), and firms’ cost of capital, including both equity capital and debt. Design/methodology/approach – This research is conducted...

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Corporate governance and cost of equity: empirical evidence from Latin American companies

Teti, Emanuele; Dell’Acqua, Alberto; Etro, Leonardo; … - In: Corporate Governance: The International Journal of … 16 (2016) 5, pp. 831-848

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the extent to which corporate governance (CG) systems adopted by Latin American listed firms affect their cost of equity capital. Several studies on the link between the two aforementioned dimensions have been carried out, but none in the context of Latin...

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Do corporate bond recovery rates monitored by corporate governance mechanisms?

Mili, Mehdi; Abid, Sami - In: Managerial Finance 42 (2016) 8, pp. 830-848

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between corporate governance (CG) and firms’ bond recovery rates (RRs). The authors hypothesize that governance features impact RRs by controlling agency costs that result from conflicts between bondholders and shareholders....

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The impact of decoupled payments on the cost of operating capital

Kropp, Jaclyn D.; Whitaker, James B. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 71 (2011) 1, pp. 25-40

historical yields and base acreage, may lead to production distortions by altering a farmer's access to credit or enabling the … farmer to receive more favorable credit terms. The authors estimate the impact of decoupled direct payments under the 2002 … Farm Bill on the credit terms of farm operators, specifically the interest rate on short‐term operating loans. If farm …

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Science vs. Ideology: A Comment on Lynn Stout's New Thinking on "Shareholder Primacy"

Robé, Jean-Philippe - In: Accounting, Economics, and Law 2 (2012) 2

I have never met Lynn Stout. Of course, just like any person even remotely interested in corporate governance and US corporate law, I know her insightful writings. But I do not know her personally. I know for a fact, however, that Lynn Stout is a nice person. And an excessively nice person she...

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