Using a panel of 504 Taiwanese listed firms during a 10-year period (2002-2011), this study tests whether there is an optimal level of board ownership, which maximizes firm value. This work adopts Tobin’s Q as the proxy for firm value and finds that board ownership between 11.57% and 14.35%...

This paper tests and models time varying correlations among agricultural commodity, precious metal and S&P500 indices to uncover whether rising trend among these markets is a result of financialization of commodity markets and/or financial crisis. We particularly investigate the roles of market...