Recent studies have focused on the detrimental effects of global economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on firm profitability. Nevertheless, none of these studies has focused on a developing economy like Nigeria. To understand this, the study conducted a host of regression analyses using the Driscoll...

This study endeavors to scrutinize the impact of board characteristics on firm performance directly as well as through the moderating influence of institutional ownership. Tobin' Q and market-to-book ratio are the proxies of firm performance as dependent variable. The analytical approach...

We study the economic effects of a large nationalization program using newly assembled firmlevel data from Chile under Salvador Allende (1970-73). Using a difference-in-differences design, we show that nationalization substantially reduced firm performance and international business activity...