We examine the effect of corporate governance mechanisms on asymmetric information. Using a sample of 392 non-financial UK companies listed in the London Stock Exchange we find that board independence, performance related executive compensation, the number of insiders and leverage are...

This paper explores the relationship between corporate governance and asymmetric information. We find that proxies for governance mechanisms that encourage the monitoring of managers and rewards managers for moderating shirking and perquisite consumption are inversely related to proxies for...

In this paper we use six governance variables to predict the ISS's indexes values. Using a sample of 392 UK companies, the results indicate that governance variables can predict the ISS's governance rates with a higher degree of accuracy and significance. This suggests that corporate governance...