To protect investors, securities regulation generally restrains entrepreneurial ventures from entering the stock market. Scholars and regulators contend that strong rules and requirements for listing are essential to prevent the market from failing. However, these constraints can also unduly...

A tanulmányban a szerző a pénzügyi fegyelem és a cégek növekedési képessége közötti összefüggéseket vizsgálja a magyar vállalkozások különböző csoportjai körében. A vállalatok pénzügyi és szerződéses fegyelme lényeges hatást gyakorol a cégek és ezáltal az...

This paper seeks to draw attention to a flaw in the firm’s Free Cash Flow model and related statement widely accepted in Corporate Finance. We argue that the common offset of any Current Liabilities against Current Assets distorts the FCF size, composition, and volatility, thereby misstating...

This paper analyses the board composition and ownership structures of a sample of companies that have been acquired by friendly take-over and those of a matching control sample that have not. We find significant governance differences between the friendly take-over targets and the control...

It is a commonplace of American law that corporations are fictional. This is silly - corporations are all too-real (after all, most of us work for one, most of the physical goods on which we depend are made by them, the quality (and lack of quality) of our physical environment is dependent on...

This paper analyses the relationship between internal and external corporate governance mechanisms and the performance of UK companies within the context of the Cadbury Committee's Code of Best Practice. The results show, first, that the market for corporate control is an effective governance...

There is currently an exciting debate underway regarding the way in which power should be allocated in the modern public corporation. A special edition of the Harvard Law Review in April 2006 was devoted to this debate.The current debate is the result of recent proposals, both by the US...

Taxation has potentially important implications for corporate behaviour. However, there have been few studies of the impact of taxation on companies in developing countries, and fewer still concerned with unquoted companies. In this paper, we study the impact of tax policy on the financial...

We trace the relationship between firm performance and corporate governance in microfinance institutions (MFI) utilising a self constructed global data set on MFIs, collected from third-party rating agencies. We study the effect of board characteristics, ownership type, competition and...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the determinants of financial structure in the Moroccan manufacturing firms. The paper contributes to the empirical literature on capital structure in developing countries. It relies on the data collected by the Firm Analysis and...