Corporate governance (CG) reformists typically presume better-governed companies are more transparent to investors. We focus on CG and transparency in Japan, where CG has been an ongoing issue. Using local ratings of Japanese companies' CG, and data on corporate disclosures and their associated...

Keith Goode has for many years been one of Australia's highest profile mining analysts. He is unique among them, being a commissioned analyst. Goode's clients — mostly small cap mining companies with limited analyst coverage — pay for a report, which he publishes electronically, but only if...

Differences in countries' institutional settings are believed to impact on the extent to which benefits can be achieved from the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We investigate seven proxies that have been used to distinguish between institutional settings,...