This study aims at finding a relationship between the board of directors' characteristics and the stock return. The characteristics of the directors which are assumed as the independent variable in this study are of five factors; autonomy, number of members, financial knowledge, the number of...

China’s STAR market (Shanghai Stock Exchange Science and Technology Innovation Board) is its newest stock market, which was officially launched in June 2019, and whose index was released in July 2020. It has attracted extensive attention from market players, but almost no coverage from...

This paper studies the impact of independent board members on the financial performance of companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange during the period 2016-2020. Different characteristics of the board of directors have been examined extensively in the literature and board independence was...