We examine the impact of ownership concentration, firm life cycle, and family ownership on leverage using a sample of listed Italian firms. The study findings reveal that family businesses in Italy have high ownership concentration and use less debt than non-family firms. The study results show...

The study analyses the impact of bank performance, and CEO ethics on compensation for large listed banks in Nigeria from 2006-2016. The study employs alternative measures of bank performance and a self-constructed CEO ethics index to analyze the determinants of CEO pay. The study shows that bank...

The paper investigates the implications of busy directors on bank performance and bank risks in Brazil. The study employs an event study based on a change in board status as an identification strategy, Heckman's two-stage model, and the propensity score matching method to account for...