Advances in financial economics. Volume 13, Corporate governanace and firm performance / edited by Mark Hirschey, Kose John, Anil K. Makhija.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hirschey, Mark.

John, Kose.

Makhija, Anil K.

Series:

Advances in financial economics ; v.13.

Advances in financial economics ; v.13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley [UK] : JAI Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While Advances continues to publish papers from any area of Finance, the focus of this issue is on corporate governance, broadly defined as the system of controls that helps corporations and other organizations effectively manage, administer, and direct economic resources. Inlcuded in the volume are papers focusing on: the impact of deregulation and corporate structure on productive efficiency; the effectiveness of the fraud triangle and SAS; board monitoring and access to debt financing; institutional investors; and managerial stability and payout policy.

Contents:

Corporate Governance and Firm Performance; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Chapter 1. The impact of deregulation and corporate structure on productive efficiency: The case of the U.S. electric utility industry, 1990-2004; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. Data; 4. Empirical model and estimation; 5. Results; 6. Conclusion; Notes; References; Appendix A. Construction of Capital Stocks Data; Appendix B. Results of Estimation with Alternative Control Variables; Chapter 2. Implications of cash hoarding for shareholders; 1. Introduction

2. Prior research and hypothesis development3. Data and variable calculations; 4. Analysis and results; 5. Conclusions and implications; Notes; Acknowledgment; References; Appendix; Chapter 3. Detecting and predicting financial statement fraud: The effectiveness of the fraud triangle and SAS No. 99; 1. Introduction; 2. Relevant fraud-related research; 3. Proxies for pressure, opportunity, and rationalization; 4. Sample selection and results; 5. Conclusion and observations; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Management views on corporate governance and firm performance; 1. Introduction

2. Literature review on corporate governance3. Survey design; 4. Survey results; 5. Concluding observations; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 5. Board monitoring and access to debt financing; 1. Introduction; 2. Effects of board monitoring on access to debt financing; 3. Data, models, variables, and estimation; 4. Results and Discussion; 5. Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Institutional investors and director remuneration: do political connections matter?; 1. Introduction; 2. Institutional background; 3. Hypotheses development; 4. Research methods and data description

5. Results6. Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix; Chapter 7. Legal institutions, democracy and financial sector development; 1. Introduction; 2. Literature review and hypothesis development; 3. Measures of financial development and Legal Institutions; 4. Empirical model and estimation; 5. Results; 6. From Democracy to Financial Development?; 7. Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 8. On the role of institutional investors in corporate governance: Evidence from voting of mutual funds in Israel; 1. Introduction; 2. The data; 3. Empirical results

4. ConclusionsNotes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 9. Does corporate governance matter? Korean banks in the postfinancial crisis era; 1. Introduction; 2. Financial intermediation and crisis; 3. Literature review; 4. Data and methodology; 5. Empirical results; 6. Conclusions; Notes; References; Appendix. Large shareholders of Korean individual banks as of December 2002 and December 2007; Chapter 10. Managerial stability and payout policy: Does state regulation matter?; 1. Introduction; 2. Related literature; 3. Data and sample description; 4. Empirical results; 5. Summary and conclusion

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ISBN:

9786613682208

9781280771439

1280771437

9781848555730

1848555733

OCLC:

609843494