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A cross-country study of the effect of institutional ownership on credit ratings

AlHares, Aws; Ntim, Collins G. - 2017

A considerable number of studies have examined the relationship between corporate governance (CG) structures and corporate performance (e.g., Yermack, 1996; Gompers et al., 2003; Beiner et al., 2006; Renders et al., 2010; Ntim et al., 2012; Kumar & Zattoni 2013; Griffin, et al., 2014). In contrast, despite its...

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Banking behaviour and political business cycle in Africa : the role of independent regulatory policies of the central bank

Ofori-Sasu, Daniel; Agbloyor, Elikplimi Komla; Nsafoah, … - 2024

This study examines the effect of regulatory independence of the central bank in shaping the impact of electoral cycles on bank lending behaviour in Africa. It employs the dynamic system Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM) Two-Step estimator for a panel dataset of 54 African countries over the...

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State-owned enterprise governance : a stocktaking of reforms and challenges in Southern Africa

Balbuena, Sara S. - 2014

This report is the first known stocktaking of its kind to provide a regional overview of state-owned enterprise (SOE) governance reforms and challenges across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Part One summarises the challenges and governance practices related to...

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Putting integrity into finance : a purely positive approach

Erhard, Werner; Jensen, Michael C. - 2012

The seemingly never ending scandals in the world of finance with their damaging effects on value and human welfare argue strongly for an addition to the current paradigm of financial economics. We summarize here our new theory of integrity that reveals integrity as a purely positive phenomenon...

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Law and finance in Britain c.1900

Coyle, Christopher; Musacchio, Aldo; Turner, John D. - 2019

In this paper, using new estimates of the size of the UK's capital market, we examine financial development and investor protection laws in Britain c.1900 to test the influential law and finance hypothesis. Our evidence suggests that there was not a close correlation between financial...

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Blockchain-enabled corporate governance and regulation

Daluwathumullagamage, Dulani Jayasuriya; Sims, Alexandra - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 8 (2020) 2/36, pp. 1-38

prior academic articles to mostly focus on regulation (49 studies) and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) (46 studies), while …

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An Essay on Rule 506 of Regulation D; Its Questionable Origins, Regulatory Oblivion and Judicial Revitalization

Warren, Manning G. - 2010

This essay, based on the author's presentation last September to the annual meeting of the North American Securities Administration Association (NASAA), addresses several issues related to Rule 506, the most widely-used of the SEC's transactional exemptions from federal registration of...

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Handling Key Issues in Corporate Governance and Business Ethics to Be True to Self & Beyond Rules and Regulations

Dissabandara, Hareendra - 2015

There is no need to start implementing ethical practices from the zero as we have come a long way, and the main issue is that we have significantly lagged behind the general expectations. We have to break the mental barriers in an ethical way. If the real problem is with ethics, let us address...

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The Relationships of Corporate Governance, Government Regulation and Performance of Small Manufacturing Business in Australia

Li, Yongqiang - 2011

that both the government regulation and corporate governance of Australian firms are asymptotically directed to, and best … regulation and performance of small businesses in Australia. An online survey is used to solicit small businesses owners … the status quo and the proposed small business de-regulation framework.This research adopted an institutional perspective …

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Pay for Performance and Corporate Governance Reform

Doucouliagos, Hristos - 2010

Directors' pay and corporate governance continue to generate public outrage and calls for reform. Our meta-regression analysis of all comparable UK pay-for-performance estimates finds little, if any, meaningful association between directors' pay and corporate performance. However, there is...

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