We examine the impact of acquisitions by UK acquirers on executive pay. The overall sample shows a significant transitory pay increase. Pay changes are not affected by target nationality or organizational form, although initial cross-border acquisitions result in higher pay. Pay increases are...

In the present paper, we construct a corporate governance index for a sample of 93 Indian companies listed on Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange. The index is based on a comprehensive set of 64 governance attributes for these sample companies, the companies, then, have been...

This paper studies whether director appointments to multiple boards impact firm outcomes. To overcome endogeneity of board appointments, I exploit variation generated by mergers that terminate entire boards and thus shock the appointments of those terminated directors. Reductions of board...