Upon discovery, both managers and firms incur penalties for misreporting. We study the effects of these penalties on financial reporting quality and the cost of capital in a model featuring a manipulating manager, a monitoring board, and a competitive capital market. Corporate penalties have two...

In late June 2012, Barclays entered into a $453 million settlement with UK and U.S. regulators due to its manipulation of Libor between 2005 and 2009. Among the agencies that investigated Barclays is the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (as well as other antitrust authorities and...

This study examines whether ex ante securities litigation risk prompts firms to make more or less voluntary restatements. The litigation risk is captured by a new measure based on the dismissal rate of the district court where the firm is headquartered. We find that misreporting firms...

(VF)Le présent article résume les propositions des acteurs du système de gouvernance américain en 2002 et s'intéresse au mythe de la transparence. Le moment est bien choisi pour approfondir la recherche sur ce sujet parce que la mondialisation des marchés est en train de conduire à la...

The paper's purpose is to propose a typology of minority shareholders' activism in France. With the corporate governance theory, we study minority shareholders' activism. We identify their investment decisions, their abilities to collect and treat information and their power to control. The...

A partir de la théorie du gouvernement des entreprises, nous avons identifié les décisions d'investissements des actionnaires minoritaires classés en fonction de leur statut juridique, leur capacité à collecter et à traiter l'information financière et le type de contrôle qu'ils exercent...

The relation between multiple directorships, busy directors and firm performance has been researched predominantly in the context of developed economies, notably the US. This paper extends the existing literature on multiple directorships in two ways; first, by providing additional evidence on...

We discuss empirical challenges in multicountry studies of the effects of firm-level corporate governance on firm value, focusing on emerging markets. We assess the severe data, “construct validity”, and endogeneity issues in these studies, propose methods to respond to those issues, and...