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Schreiber, Nicolas; Schiereck, Dirk; Schweizer, Denis - 2022

A key objective of shareholder activists is to persuade a firm’s management to change its strategy. CFOs play an important role in negotiations, nonetheless activism research mainly focuses on CEOs. We examine the relationship between CFO overconfidence and the likelihood to get targeted by...

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Comparative models of capitalism in the areas of financial system and corporate governance : the diversity of capitalism approach perspective

Pisany, Paweł - In: International journal of management and economics 52 (2016) 1, pp. 59-76

This article presents and assesses the methodology and results of a comparative analysis conducted by Bruno Amable in financial systems and corporate governance in the context of current policy and regulatory challenges. The article, which is based on a literature review and game theory...

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Ethical Reputation of Financial Institutions : Do Board Characteristics Matter?

Baselga-Pascual, Laura - 2020

This paper examines the association between board characteristics and the ethical reputation of financial institutions. Given the pivotal governance role of the board of directors and the value-relevance of ethical corporate behavior, we postulate a positive relationship between ethical...

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Corporate Governance of Financial Intermediaries in Bulgaria (1898-1947)

Nedelchev, Miroslav - 2018

The dynamics of reforms in the financial system changes corporate governance practices. When forming a national type of corporate governance, a significant role is played by the external environment in the face of the state and the inflow of foreign capital. The similarity between national and...

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Corporate Governance in the Financial System of Bulgaria (1898-1947)

Nedelchev, Miroslav - 2018

The dynamics of corporate governance in the financial system reflects the economic development of Bulgaria. The creation and implementation of corporate governance practices in Bulgaria are borrowed from the experience of other countries. With the development of the national economy, corporate...

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Shareholder Stewardship in the Netherlands : The Role of Institutional Investors in a Stakeholder Oriented Jurisdiction

Van der Elst, Christoph - 2020

We study institutional investors' voice in the Netherlands, focusing on shareholder voting in particular. The Dutch …

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Diversity of Dutch Pension Fund Boards

Swinkels, Laurens - 2016

In this article, we investigate the level of diversity of the largest 100 pension funds in the Netherlands. Our results … Netherlands with diversity in (inter)national corporations and find similar levels of diversity. This high level of similarity … board diversity, in the Netherlands and potentially elsewhere …

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Decision Making in the Pension Fund Board Room : An Experiment with Dutch Pension Fund Trustees

van Dalen, Hendrik P. - 2010

We ask how pension fund trustees deal with the booms and busts that funds encounter, and to what extent the decisions of pension fund trustees are affected by behavioral biases. We examine these issues by using a vignette-method field experiment among Dutch pension fund trustees. We find that...

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The Italian Financial System

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De toekomst van bancaire financiering

Boot, Arnoud W. A. - In: Economisch statistische berichten : ESB 79 (1994) 27, pp. 656-660

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