The environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are used to evaluate nonfinancial performance of a firm. While some researchers state that ESG initiatives taken by a firm increase its value and performance by lowering costs and unsystematic risks, others consider it as a wastage of firm...

Agency theory predicts that leverage affects agency costs and thereby the firm's influence will be influenced. The goal of the paper is to examine the profitability-capital relationship for the US banks using an unbalanced panel over the period 1995-2007. In our model we used a combination of...

This paper seeks to examine the determinants of the performance of Latin American banks during the period 1995-2010. The sample of banks is representative of the Latin American region because it includes small and large economies with different levels of development in their financial markets...

Purpose: Investigate how gender diversity on the board of directors and board remuneration influence earnings quality in Spanish listed firms.Design/methodology/approach: The primary empirical method uses a Tobit semiparametric estimator with firm-industry level fixed effects and an innovative...

The environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are used to evaluate nonfinancial performance of a firm. While some researchers state that ESG initiatives taken by a firm increase its value and performance by lowering costs and unsystematic risks, others consider it as a wastage of firm...