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and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG … reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the conflict of interest between the controlling and the minority owners … limited success to improve indices of firm performance in our sample. We argue that this arises from the predatory behavior of …
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The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to their performance. Based on a novel … between the past performance of firms measured by return on sales and return on assets, and the likelihood of managerial … turnover. While the strength of the turnover-performance relationship does not seem to depend on factors such as managerial …
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on performance. We test this prediction on an almost complete population of Slovenian joint stock companies with 100 or …
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This paper studies the effect on company performance of appointing non-executive directors that are also executive … positive relationship between the presence of these non-executive directors and the accounting performance of the appointing …
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. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative measures of gender diversity, and several performance indicators, we …
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This paper provides new evidence on the structure, dynamics and performance effects of corporate boards in publicly … foreign and female directors. It also shows that board characteristics are linked to company performance (the market … Russia. Testing for structural breaks in the relationship between board composition and firm performance provides some …
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This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...
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This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … loosing their income because of contamination. Data on six countries confirm a disproportionate impact of the epidemic on the …
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We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people's mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health,...
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Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...
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