Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the main and joint effects of politically connected firms (PCFs) and institutional monitoring on the cost of debt. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a panel data set of Malaysian politically connected and non-politically connected listed...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine whether institutional investors monitoring attenuate (exacerbate) weaker earnings persistence in politically connected firms (PCFs). In addition, it investigates whether earnings persistence do vary according to different types of political...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the significant association between political institutions and the control of corruption. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses ordinary least squares model to examine the following: quality of political institutions; the association...

Purpose: This study aims to examine whether the monitoring effectiveness of female directors in corporate boards is moderated by political connections and family ownership. Design/methodology/approach: This study employs a Malaysian dataset of listed firms from 2005 to 2015. The ordinary least...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the association between family firms and audit fees in an emerging economy setting. As family firms either face Type 1 or Type 2 agency problem, it seeks to gain a better understanding on family firms in an emerging economy such as Malaysia....