Purpose: This study aims to investigate how ownership structure and bank regulations individually and interactively influence risk-taking behaviour of a bank. Design/methodology/approach: This empirical framework is based on dynamic two-step system generalised method of moments estimation...

We examine the interrelationships among executive compensation, environmental-social-governance-based (ESG) sustainable compensation policy, carbon performance and market value. Using one of the largest datasets to-date, consisting of 4,379 firm-year observations covering a period of 15 years...

This article investigates the influence of firm-level corporate governance on the cost of equity capital to firms in Bangladesh. Agency theory suggests that better corporate governance reduces agency costs and improves investors' confidence, which in turn reduces the rate of return on stock...

Purpose -- This paper investigates whether firm-level corporate governance has an influence on the equity financing patterns in an emerging economy such as Bangladesh.Design/methodology/approach -- The regression framework uses a questionnaire survey-based corporate governance index (CGI)...

This paper investigates the influence of firm-level corporate governance on financial performance of the listed firms in Bangladesh. Agency theory suggests that better corporate governance reduces expropriation costs, which in turn enhances investors' confidence in the firm's future cash flow...