Purpose: Principal–principal conflicts between family shareholders and other shareholders have been investigated in emerging economies, but fewer studies have examined the effect of concentrated ownership on firm profitability and dividend payout in stakeholder-oriented systems. The purpose...

This paper investigates the relationship between market liquidity and bank-dominated corporate governance structure of Japanese listed firms, represented as main bank relationships and cross shareholdings. We find that (i) main bank lending relationships increase market liquidity and reduce...

This paper examines the relations between the disciplinary role of Japanese relationship-oriented corporate governance mechanisms, such as keiretsu memberships and bank-appointed directors, and pay-performance sensitivity in Japan. Previous studies show that pay-performance sensitivity is...

This paper examines the relationship between the level of Japanese business managers' compensation and the quality of corporate governance, and whether weaker governance structures lead to poorer future performance. The conclusions of this paper are as follows. First, the level of Japanese...

This paper examines the relationship between the level of managerial compensation and the quality of corporate governance in Japan in the period following the bubble burst of 1991-1995. There are three main findings. First, Japanese firms with weaker governance have greater agency problems in...

This paper examines the sufficient condition for the existence of synchronization risk as defined in Abreu and Brunnermeier (2003). Using a numerical example, it shows that there is an upper bound to the selling threshold for bubble bursting. This implies that the selling threshold stipulated as...

This note reexamines Abreu and Brunnermeier's (2003) analysis of a bubble that persists towards synchronization risk. We find that a certain condition that usually does not hold is required for the existence of synchronization risk.

This note reexamines Abreu and Brunnermeier's (2003) analysis of a bubble that persists towards synchronization risk. We find that a certain condition that usually does not hold is required for the existence of synchronization risk.