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different types of controlling shareholders. In a context of ownership concentration and poor investor protection, controlling … shareholders can easily expropriate minority shareholders and profit from private benefits of control. However, this agency … conflict has been rarely studied, as the most commonly assumed agency conflict resides between managers and shareholders. Using …
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The present paper aims to provide empirical evidence regarding the impact of shareholder activism on earnings management. Specifically, it is focused on investigating the moderating role of an external governance mechanism such as external audit quality. Based on a sample of French companies...
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different types of controlling shareholders. In a context of concentrated ownership and poor investor protection, controlling … shareholders can easily expropriate wealth from minority shareholders and profit from private benefits of control. However, this … shareholders. Using an audit fee model derived from Simunic (1980), we study the impact of the nature of controlling shareholders …
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The present paper aims to provide empirical evidence regarding the impact of shareholder activism on earnings management. Specifically, it is focused on investigating the moderating role of an external governance mechanism such as external audit quality. Based on a sample of French companies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012176219
shareholders far removed from the firm's day-to-day operations; and delegated management, which opens up the possibility for … appointment rights, by which shareholders retain the right to appoint and remove directors. Next, it focuses on core decision … in the regulation of executive compensation. The chapter briefly reviews legal rules and standards and disclosure as …
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We study the empirical relation between audit fees and governance mechanisms in Germany. Using data from German listed companies, we examine the German governance setting with its two-tier board system. Various model specifications control for potential endogeneity of the governance variables....
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In this study, we explore the influence of board characteristics and ownership structure on auditor choice decisions in less strictly legal environments, like Egypt. Using a large sample of 899 firm-year observations for the period of 2011 to 2019, we employed logistic and probit regressions. We...
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Prior research documents how companies often rely on their own limited networks when searching for new directors. In this study, we ask the following question: How does audit committee (AC) selection differ if a machine makes audit committee (AC) appointments? Using a large dataset of potential...
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By examining the extent to which the proportion of female board directors affects the gender assignment of engagement partners, this paper contributes to the existing literature in several ways. First, we investigate the French mandatory joint audit setting, giving rise to a set of concerns with...
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When there is high information asymmetry between directors and managers, independent directors do not have enough information to perform their functions. Only when faced with a good internal information environment can such directors acquire enough information to provide advice and monitor...
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