Tags : Corporate Governance

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Does Accountability Deter Individuals from Serving as Independent Directors? Evidence from a Corporate Governance Reform in India
Prior literature, both theoretical and empirical, has highlighted the important role of independent directors as a monitor and an advisor. Recent corporate governance scandals have resulted in calls for greater accountability of independent directors to improve the effectiveness of corporate boards. Opponents, on the ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2016/nielsen-does-accountability-deter-individuals
Product Market Response to Corporate Governance Shocks: Evidence from India
In 2000, India has adopted a major corporate governance reform (Clause 49) that required the adoption of audit committees, a minimum number of independent directors, and CEO/SFO certification of financial statements and internal controls. While initially the largest firms were required to adopt these changes, later ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2015/zaldokas-mukherjee-product-market-response
Equity Crowdfunding in China: An Exploratory Study
The proposed project is an exploratory study of equity crowdfunding in China. While most research on crowdfunding focuses on the relative success of fundraising efforts in prepaid/rewards-based crowdfunding projects, we seek to understand what happens after fundraising in the under-examined format of equity ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2015/garg-equity-crowdfunding-china-exploratory
An Examination of the Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act – IEMS’ Xi Li Featured in SCMP Education Post
IEMS’ Xi Li was featured in the SCMP Education Post, which carried a research summary by Prof. Li on his research studies into the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002, which was meant to strengthen corporate governance and financial reporting in the US in the wake of several corporate scandals. He used this as ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2015/an-examination-of-the-impact-of-the-sarbanes-oxley-act---iems-xi-li-featured-in-scmp-education-post
Understanding Firms in Emerging Transitional Economies: China and Central-Eastern Europe Compared
Firm productivity is central to explain the performance of an economy as a whole. Recent research assesses how cross country income differences can be related to differences in the productivity dispersion across firms (a syndrome of resource misallocation). However, there is a tremendous lack of understanding on the ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2014/wang-understanding-firms-emerging-transitional
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