Corporate Taxes and Firms’ Performance: Evidence from an Emerging Economy

Board Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Iranian Firms

According to agency theory, board of directors plays an important monitoring role in reducing information asymmetry and increasing the transparency of financial statements and social responsibility. This research is concerned with examining board diversity and social responsibility of the firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2011-2015. To do so, a sample of 98 firms was se...

Corporate Taxes, Growth and Welfare in a Schumpeterian Economy (Running Title: Corporate Taxes and Welfare)

I take a new look at the long-run implications of taxation through the lens of modern Schumpeterian growth theory. I focus on the latest vintage of models that sterilize the scale effect through a process of product proliferation that fragments the aggregate market into submarkets whose size does not increase with the size of the workforce. I show that the following interventions raise welfare:...

An Empirical Investigation of the Relation between Corporate Sustainability Performance (CSP) and Corporate Value: Evidence from Iran

This study provides an empirical evidence on how Corporate Sustainability Performance (CSP), is reflected in the corporate value. Using a theoretical framework combining Legitimacy theory, Stakeholder theory and Agency theory, a set of hypotheses that relate the corporate value to CSP is examined. For a sample of Iranian firms, 28 components with four dimensions as Community, Environment, Emplo...

Law, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Scandal in an Emerging Economy: Insights from China

Post - Privatisation Corporate Governance , Corporate Entrepreneurship and Firm Performance in Privatised Firms in a Transitioning Economy

A growing number of studies have examined the relationship between corporate governance and corporate entrepreneurship, with most finding that corporate governance has a significant influence (Zahra, 1996, Zahra et al., 2000b). However, the question of which ownership structure and governance mechanism most significantly drives corporate entrepreneurship in transitioning economies is still unde...