One of the prime responsibilities of the board of directors is to understand and oversee its firm's risk profile. Unlike more traditional studies, this paper studies the resiliency of U.S. firms' board of directors to a growing threat, cyber risk. We exploit a recent European Union (EU)...

This study examines how globalization of corporate governance practices influence the risk of European CEOs being dismissed. We argue that the harsh monitoring of the American corporate governance system spills over to the rest of the world as a result of this globalization. We focus on direct...