In spite of the fact that most research has concentrated on the typical agency problem between managers and dispersed shareholders, in many countries large shareholders are much more frequently observed than firms with dispersed ownership structures. While large shareholders are perceived as a...

Pharmaceutical firms frequently attract political attention due to their high accounting profitability. We study the U.S. pharmaceutical industry to test the two opposing views of how regulators use accounting information in the political process: The “public interest hypothesis” predicts...

This codebook and the related dataset and statistical code accompanies Bernard Black, Antonio Gledson de Carvalho, Vikramaditya Khanna, Woochan Kim and B. Burcin Yurtoglu, Methods for Multicountry Studies of Corporate Governance: Evidence from the BRIKT Countries, 183 Journal of Econometrics...

Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu 30 Aralık 2011 ve 11 Şubat 2012 tarihlerinde yayınladığı Seri IV, No: 56 ve 57 sayılı tebliğlerle 2003 yılında ‘uy yada açıkla' yaklaşımı ile yayınladığı Kurumsal Yönetim İlkeleri'ni yeniledi ve ilkelerin bir kısmını 654 sayılı kanun...

Three problems pose severe challenges to identify the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on firm value and performance. These are construct validity, limited data, and endogeneity. To deal with them we use a broad composite measure of CSR and panel data with firm fixed and random...

An important issue in evaluating corporate governance is how to measure it. In prior work on emerging markets, we have advocated measuring firm-level governance using country-specific indices, tailored to each country's laws and institutions. An alternate approach, used in commercial indices, is...