CORPORATE BOARD COMPOSITION IN AN EMERGING MARKET

Pricing Emerging Market Corporate Bonds

Corporate Governance Matters to Investors in Emerging Market Companies

Financial crises have a way of bringing corporate governance to the foreground. For interested parties wanting to know more, there is an impressive body of research that looks at companies and the connection between strong governance and better performance. However, the existing literature only goes so far. It does not look at whether the level and quality of firm-level corporate governance pla...

The Effects of Transparency of Financial Information and Board Composition on Forecast Accuracy of Corporate Earnings

The aim of the present research is to determine the effects of financial information transparency and composition of board of directors on forecast accuracy of corporate earnings in companies. A corporation's key for success is hidden in its optimal direction. So it can be claimed that the secret of the eternal reputation of popular corporations lies in their efficient board of directors. One o...

Stock Market Seasonality in an Emerging Market

The objective of this paper is to explore the day-of-the-week effect on the Indian stock market returns in the post-reform era. Till the late seventies, empirical studies provided ample evidence as to the informational efficiency of the capital markets advocating futility of information in consistently generating abnormal returns. However, later studies identified certain anomalies in the effic...

Social Network and Corporate Financial Performance: Conceptual Framework of Board Composition and Corporate Social Responsibility

Although a number of theories propose the relationship among corporate governance, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance (CFP), existing literature does not provide a consensus of the direction of that relationship, or proposes how to enlarge it social network to absorb external resources. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the relationship between...