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... and then considers the responsibility of the board and why its oversight appears to have failed in a number of cases. Other aspects of the corporate governance framework that contributed to the ... adequacy of its corporate governance principles in these key areas. * This report is published on the responsibility of the OECD Steering Group on Corporate Governance which agreed the report ... 2008 1 The Corporate Governance Lessons from the Financial Crisis Grant Kirkpatrick * This report analyses the impact of failures and weaknesses in corporate governance on the financial...

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... Conclusion CGI of the bank is found to be able to reflect corporate governance of the bank. Component score of disclosure and transparency better reflects actual situation of the bank. However, ... be used to test the appropriateness of this CGI. The results show that corporate governance index is able to reflect actual corporate governance situation of the bank and in line with its rank ... influenced by the management style of a market economy after privatization. The bank is a medium to large joint stock commercial banks in Vietnam. For these reasons, corporate governance of the bank...

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... roles further highlights the importance of incorporat- ing alternative theoretical perspectives in future corporate governance research. One of the greatest barriers to advancing the field of corporate ... effectiveness of the corporate gover- nance system, from the perspective of share- holders, since the effectiveness of concentrated ownership is largely dependent on the effective- ness of the legal ... boards of directors and firm performance. They suggest a reconceptualization of the traditional treatment of boards of directors within the agency theory framework. Agency theorists present the...

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... of the corporate governance- related functions of the chief executive, general counsel, corporate secretary, head of investor relations and other corporate officers, thereby allowing these officers ... and amongst the board of directors of an issuer for the pur- pose of overseeing the accounting and financial report- ing processes of the issuer; and audits of the financial statements of the issuer.” The ... performance evaluation of the committee. 24 Corporate Governance Best Practices: A Blueprint for the Post -Enron Era The Conference Board Role of the Nominating /Corporate Governance Committee Companies...

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... voting control over much of the German large corporate sector. The Reich then took control of the banks. Following the war, the banks were privatized, but the Nazi innovations of stakeholder rights ... who used small blocks of super-voting shares to hold together their vast py- The Global History of Corporate Governance: An Introduction 23 portance at the middle of the century. They suggest that ... the corporate governance of those firms, and conclude (p. 2193) that the separation of ownership and management is thus an indication of a su- perior corporate governance environment. The lack of...

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... The spread between the two ($0.11) is revenue for the broker. In the U.S., at that time, a bid-ask spread of 1/8 ($0.125) was not uncommon. The ‘profit’ of $15 million reflects the size of the ... all.) Whether the dealer knows everything about the particular bond makes no difference. The market has the information and that information is reflected in the price. Therefore, the cost of ‘lemons’ ... stability after the announcement reflects the market’s opinion of the nature of the assistance and its likelihood of success. 3. Internet exercise; answers will vary. 130 b. To make the example...

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... enacting most of them, and others, in the Corporate Responsibility Act of 2002. Policymakers were not the only ones to take quick action in the wake of the scandals. The major stock exchanges the New ... years ago, the American system of cor- porate disclosure the combination of accounting and auditing standards, the professionalism of auditors, and the rules and prac- tices of corporate governance ... ensure the timely dis- semination of relevant and accurate corporate financial information—was championed as a model for the rest of the world. In the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis of 1997–98,...

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... practices. The ROE of companies with better corporate governance at an ROE of 23.5%, compare with the companies with lower corporate governance with ROE of 16.6%. The results of the ROA ratios ... further poor governance practices. In Vietnam, there have been a number of company scandals from corporate governance failures and malpractices. They have included some of the largest corporate ... of the total market capitalization of these exchanges. The companies were assessed against the five key areas, which are recognized by the OECD Principles as the keys to good corporate governance: ...

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... 297 mergers inflate their earnings prior to the merger in order to inflate their stock price and thereby reduce the cost of the merger. Other studies have examined the incentives of managers to manipulate ... Xie et al. / Journal of Corporate Finance 9 (2003) 295–316306 Finally, we show that the log of book value to total assets, the log of sales, and the log of the market value of equity are significantly ... director characteristics. Outside directors can be corporate, finance, legal, or blockh older. We include the proportion of these directors of the total board. Of these variables, only the corporate director coefficient...

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... corporate governance structure, the board of directors must ensure that the management acts in the best interests of the shareholders. The board of directors is responsible for execution of the ... As there were new requirements in the Standard Code of Corporate Governance during the test period, we incorporate the third group of interactions vari- ables to capture the yearly impact of the ... important device of corporate governance in China. Chen (2005) finds that there is a positive association between the size of the supervisory board and the level of corporate governance, suggesting...

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... adopt the number of SB members as a proxy for the monitoring strength of the SB. The fewer SB members a listed firm has, the weaker the internal corporate governance is, vice verse. Therefore the ... researchers, and government of cials gradually accept the view that the best practices of corporate governance require the separation of the roles of CBoD and CEO. Such a corporate governance device has ... purpose of “opinion shopping” in order to mitigate the negative impact of the unclean audit report on the firm's stock price in the market, and on the self-interests of the management or the...

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