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15.997 Advanced Corporate Risk Management, Spring 2007

Parsons, John E.; Obizhaeva, Anna - 2007

Opportunity for group study by graduate students on current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. From the course home page: Course Description This is a course on how corporations make use of the insights and tools of risk management. Most courses on derivatives,...

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Labor market consequences of accounting fraud

Hoi, Chun-Keung; Robin, Ashok - 2010

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the research questions: Do executive and non-executivedirectors face similar labor market penalties upon revelation of accounting fraud? Are all executivedirectors treated by markets as a homogenous group? Or, do executive directors who are top managersface...

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Japan's Economy: The Idiosyncratic Recovery Continues

Patrick, Hugh - 2007

challenges that involve divestitures, mergers, and acquisitions. Activist shareholders are playing an increasingly important yet …

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Privatisation in Australia and the western economies in the 1990's: Distributional and political effects of accounting and financial reporting

Gowland, D; Aiken, M - 2009

This article captures the effects of 1990's privatization two decades later and challenges whether the expected outcomes of Government debt reduction, a change in share ownership, reduced union and government intervention, and improved efficiency have been achieved. It also addresses whether the...

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Strategies in Financial Services, the Shareholders and the System Is Bigger and Broader Better?

Walter, Ingo - 2002

, however measured, and the range of activities conducted by them. Is size positively related to total returns to shareholders …? If so, does this involve gains in efficiency or transfers of wealth to shareholders from other constituencies, or maybe … shareholders and customers, or can it work against their interests in ways that may ultimately impede shareholder value as well …

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Aufsichtsräte deutscher Aktiengesellschaften: Zusammensetzung, Interventionsaktivitäten, Performance

Vetter, Karin - 2011

Den Aufsichtsräten innerhalb des deutschen Corporate Governance Systems ist in den letzten Jahren erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit zugekommen. Es wurden Empfehlungen und gesetzliche Vorschriften formuliert, die die Zusammensetzung des Aufsichtsratsgremiums sowie dessen Tätigkeiten betreffen. Diesem...

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Zur Rolle der Printmedien bei der Steuerung und ?berwachung von Unternehmen. Eine Analyse der Berichterstattung ?ber die Einhaltung der Grunds?tze des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex.

Schmid, Christoph - 2006

Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Feststellung, dass sich die ?konomische Theorie trotz der mehr als 160j?hrigen Geschichte gewerbsm??iger medialer Berichterstattung ?ber das Geschehen rund um M?rkte und Unternehmen lange Zeit kaum mit den Massenmedien besch?ftigt hat. Dabei kann...

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Disclosure of executive remuneration in large banks

Schott, Max - 2008

The first part of this thesis analyzes and quantifies the magnitude of executive remuneration disclosure of the worlds 245 largest exchange-listed banks, using annual reports as the primary source of information, and the diverse disclosure rules in the 31 countries in which these banks are...

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Die Relevanz der in Deutschland obligatorischen Informationen zur Corporate Governance

Kristian Köpke - 2011

Die Europäische Union hat es sich zum Ziel gemacht, auf eine gute und vor allem effektive Corporate Governance hinzuwirken. Mit dieser Zielsetzung wurde in einer Abänderungsrichtlinie festgelegt, dass kapitalmarktorientierte Unternehmen künftig umfassende Informationen (das sog. Corporate...

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Two essays on corporate finance

Parrino, Robert (contributor) - 2010

This dissertation consists of two essays on corporate finance. Essay one examines whether corporate governance affects firm performance after capital investments. I find that among firms with weak corporate governance, those with high abnormal capital investments have significantly lower stock...

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