We analyse the principles for sound compensation practices at financial institutions and their implementation standards (briefly PSSCPs) issued in 2009 by the Financial Stability Board (FSB). We examine, first of all, the political economy of the PSSCP. We describe their formation as a result of...

My study examines how institutional features of transition economies, i.e., goverment ownership, legal investor protection, and government regulation distort the choice of directors, and the firm value impact of independent director and political-connected director in China. We find that SOEs...

Due to the numerous corporate scandals during the late 90s, in September 2001 the German Ministry of Justice appointed the "Government Commission German Corporate Governance Code" to develop a code of best practice. The first version of the German Corporate Governance Code was passed at February...

Vietnam has rapidly developed the legal framework for commercial business beginning in the early 1990s. Through successive revisions of its company law, Vietnam has provided more detailed standards and rules for directors and managers of companies. These rules and standards clearly parallel the...

In this Article we submit that the compensation structures at banks before the financial crisis were not necessarily flawed and that recent reforms in this area largely reflect already existing best practices. In Part I we review recent empirical studies on corporate governance and executive pay...

Institutional fractures have in many ways undermined the plans of policymakers to strengthen stock markets in emerging nations. After more than a decade of legal reform, the countries that followed the prescriptions of the World Bank and the OECD have little to show for their efforts. If capital...

The global financial and economic crisis marks an important turning point for finance and the Asian growth model. Regional consensus is now supporting economic rebalancing away from the dominant focus on exports to developed markets and towards more a more balanced economic structure supported...

Our work provides refined tests of the existence and source of merger gains in a neglected industry: utilities. While excluded from traditional analyses, utilities offer fertile ground for a detailed analysis of the traditional theories of synergy, collusion, hubris and anticipation. The...

While bankers and brokers remain everyone's favorite culprits for causing the great financial crisis two years ago, a less likely suspect - the institutional investor community - is increasingly coming under scrutiny for passive corporate governance and a focus on short-term returns that enabled...