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Purpose The ownership structure in Japanese firms has experienced a significant change recently, fueled primarily by regulatory changes. This has important repercussions on corporate performance and risk. This paper examines the impact of insider ownership on the default risk of Japanese firms....
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This study examines the role of board networks in promoting stock liquidity in periods of heightened economic policy … competitive industries. Secondly, we provide evidence that board networks promote stock liquidity more via the information channel … effects of economic policy uncertainty on stock liquidity …
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We investigate whether corporate governance is related to insolvency risk of financial institutions. Using a large sample of U.S. financial institutions over the 2005–2010 period, we find that corporate governance is positively related with insolvency risk of financial institutions as proxied...
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Poor corporate governance can damage the interests of shareholders, and may lead to company collapse. Previous studies in credit risk prediction provide no consensus as to which and how corporate governance variables determine bankruptcy. This paper is the first to apply a discrete time hazard...
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This research aims to confirm the reliability of agency theory as an approach to explaining the impact of CEO narcissism, corporate governance as represented by boards of size and female directors, financial distress, and company size on corporate tax avoidance. In this quantitative study,...
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Objective: The aim of this paper is to identify basic relationships between intellectual capital efficiency in banks, their corporate governance, and their financial performance. Examining these relationships seems justified as up to now the topic has been investigated relatively rarely....
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This paper examines the effect of shareholder governance on firms' cost of borrowing. Using voting results on shareholder-sponsored governance proposals, we find significant and negative reactions in the public debt and secondary loan markets to the passage of governance proposals. Banks also...
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Over the past decade, one popular way for Turkish banks to remove nonperforming loans (NPLs) from their balance sheets has been to sell them to asset management companies. We examine the short-term market reaction to the announcements of such NPL sales over the period 2009-2019. We also consider...
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We examine the relation between corporate governance and bankruptcy risk as an underlying force affecting a bond’s yield. The level of corporate governance is captured by the G-index, along with the explicit groups of governance provisions. We estimate bankruptcy risk by Z-score, by...
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This study provides new stylized facts on the determinants of corporate failure and acquisition in Germany. It also offers important lessons for the design of empirical studies. We show that firms experiencing failure or acquisition are significantly different from surviving firms on a number of...
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