... insights to the zero-leverage phenomenon. Harshana Kasseeah can be contacted at: h.kasseeah@uom.ac.mu 16 10 2024 16 01 2025 21 03 2025 23 03 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only G0 G38 M20 Finance...

... Corporate diversification Corporate investment G30 G38 L25 There is a well-established literature on the role of economic policy uncertainty (hereafter EPU) on corporate policies and outcomes (Demir and Ersan, 2017 ; Fang et al., 2018 ; Gulen and Ion, 2016 ; Ilyas et al...

... 15 12 2023 09 01 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only CSR CSR inequality Takeover market Mergers and acquisitions Corporate governance Corporate social responsibility M14 G34 G38 Corporate social...

... four Hostile takeovers The market for corporate control Corporate governance G34 G38 M41 M42 M48 Following the literature, we capture audit quality using a dichotomous variable indicating whether a firm hires a Big N auditor or not. Big N auditors have been found to be associated...

... pressure on option vesting periods. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only G32 G34 G38 M48 M52 Executive compensation contracts play an important role in aligning managerial behavior with shareholder interests (Holmstrom, 1979...

... or her personal viewpoint upon others. Gender Diversity CEO dominance CFO Acquisitions D23 G14 G38 M12 Warren Buffet, in the 1981 annual report of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., warned potential company acquirers against the notion that their magical kiss would be able to transform...

... at: akhilesh-bajaj@utulsa.edu 08 03 2021 29 05 2021 18 06 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Bond ratings CEO power Plus specification Minus specification Middle specification D23 G14 G38 M12 Prior...

... attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Corporate governance Corporate voting Bank regulation Voting premium G34 G38 K22 Italian banks are established either as joint...

... G38 Research has shown that the characteristics of top executives such as age, tenure, incentives and their professional background impact corporate policies (see Chava and Purnanandam, 2010   Barua et al., 2010 ; Aier et al., 2005 ; Geiger and North, 2006 ; Francis...

... capital Generalized quantile regression Risk absorption G21 G28 G38 This paper aims to examine the relationship between bank capital and liquidity creation. According to financial intermediation theory, liquidity creation is considered as one of the most important functions of banks...

... decline G32 G38 M52 Numerous studies document a positive relation between incentive (or equity-based) pay (comprising executive stock options and restricted stock) and firm performance [1] but none examine what happens to that relationship for existing CEOs when firms experience performance...

... 12 2015 10 02 2016 15 04 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Delaware Courts Net operating losses Poison pill Section 382 Shareholder rights plan G38 H25 K34 On October 4, 2010 the Delaware...

... controlling shareholders. The paper examines all the phases of the squeeze-out procedure and challenges. G14 G34 G38 K22 The rest of the paper proceeds as follows. Section 2 reviews the institutional background, describing the introduction of the squeeze-out rule in Germany and the procedures...