Prior research has shown evidence of earnings management in financial reports of US and Australian firms changing chief executive officer (CEO). This paper examines whether corporate boards, with certain characteristics associated with strong corporate governance, are effective in controlling...

Purpose – The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) mandated a variety of corporate governance mechanisms to improve the transparency of financial reporting quality. This paper's aim is to investigate whether SOX's recently mandated disclosure of corporate governance structures affects the market's...

This paper endogenizes both the choice of governance transparency at the firrm level and the portfolio decisions of investors. ln the model, managers raise money in financial markets that are subject to imperfections arising from the non-observability of output for financiers. Investors, on the...

Not necessarily the most appropriate defence of stakeholder interests can be found in the institutions and practice of corporate governance, other specific kinds of legal provisions can be more suitable. In the literature the issue of protection of stakeholder interests (of employees in...

This paper aims to highlight certain aspects of the fraud risk faced by all organizations, regardless of the specific activity. Also, in this work are presented some practical examples in order to show how the risk of fraud is managed. The implications of this risk can be unlimited and may lead...

The objectives of enterprises, their internal organization and the environment in which they operate evolve permanently; thus, the risks they are exposed to permanently change, influencing performance and even putting their existence in danger. Therefore, corporate governance may sometimes refer...

This study investigates the valuation impact of a firm’s decision to cross-list on a more (or less) prestigious stock exchange relative to its own domestic market. We use network analysis to derive broad market-based measures of prestige for forty-five country or regional stock exchange...

We present a model in which the owner of the firm enjoys a private benefit from developing a personal relationship with the executives. This may lead the owner to retain a senior executive in office even though a more productive replacement is available. The model shows that the private returns...

The paper studies the link between the integration of European financial markets and corporate governance in Europe. The focus of the paper is on how integration affects the interplay of ownership structures, capital structures, and monitoring, all of which can be used to govern agency problems...

Nowadays, the concept of adding value for the shareholder knows a growing enthusiasm and this the more it knows the pressure of the shareholders regarding the continuous spread of the corporate governance concept, which came from the United States. The specialty literature and the practice offer...