Corporate Governance deals with the issue, how suppliers of finance to corporations assure themselves of getting a return on their investment. Several Studies have examined the relationship between managerial ownership and firm performance. Using different samples most of the studies provide...

We analyze the probability of an incumbents winning in the consecutive election, under the assumption that all individual candidates are equally likely (i.e. random selection) when they are from the same party. We estimate the probability of winning by ruling party. Using Indian panel data from...

This paper investigates the association between the corporate governance and the dividends payout policy for a panel of Indian corporate firms over the period 1994-2000. We explain the differences in the dividend payout behavior of the firms with the help of firm’s financial structure,...

Corporate Governance deals with the issue of how suppliers of finance to corporations assure themselves of getting a return on their investment. Several Studies have examined the relationship between ownership structure and firm performance. Using di erent data samples most of the studies...

This study examines the role of pension plan funding status on Mamp;A activity of acquiring/target firms in a large sample of UK corporations. We exploit the funding status of the defined benefit pension plans in order to identify, the dependence of corporate activity in mergers and acquisition...

This paper examines the relationship between corporate firm's ownership and capital structure in context of an emerging market economy, India. We use firm-level time series data of listed companies from 1994 through 2000 and analyze the firm's corporate financing behavior in connection with its...

This paper examines empirically the effects of ownership structure on the firm performance for a panel of Indian corporate firms, from an 'agency perspective'. We examine the effect of interactions between corporate, foreign, institutional, and managerial ownership on firm performance. Using...

This paper examines the possible association between ownership structure, corporate governance and firm's dividend payout policy. It is also one of the very first examples, which tries to detect any potential association in ownership structure, corporate governance and well-established dividend...

Corporate Governance deals with the issue of how the suppliers of finance to various corporations assure themselves of getting a return on their investment. Several Studies have examined the relationship between ownership structure and firm performance. Using different data samples from...

This study examines the role of pension plan funding status on merger and acquisition (M&A)activity across a large sample of UK corporations. We explore how corporate activity in theM&A market is linked to the funding status of defined benefit pension plans. Pension deficitshave a negative...