The new NYSE rules for corporate governance require the audit committee to discuss and review the firm's risk assessment and hedging strategies. They also put additional requirements for the composition and the financial knowledge of the directors sitting on the board and on the audit committee....

This paper tests the effects of the independence and financial knowledge of directors on risk management and firm value in the gold mining industry. Our original hand-collected database on directors' financial education, accounting background, and financial experience allows us to test the...

This paper provides a critical review of three common problems facing researchers when implementing tests of corporate hedging theories: (1) how to identify hedgers in the population considered? (2) how to measure corporate hedging and finally, (3) what possible determinants should be considered...