S&P/TSX 300 Companies’ Political Connections, Compliance with Board of Directors Regulations and Financial Performance

Internal Audit, Board of Directors and Financial Reporting Quality

High-quality internal audit is expected to lead to high-quality financial reporting. High-quality financial reporting expresses itself in earning quality. Earning quality has been playing a key role in capital market for a long time. Finance users pay special attention to earning quality because they make their decision based on it. On the other hand, the market economy will experience awful, i...

Political Connections and Financial Stability

Do political connections increase bank risk-taking, or do they work as a financial safety net ex post? Using a data set of lobbying activities by US financial institutions, this paper provides empirical evidence that lobbying activities reduce banks’ risks under the presence of government bailouts. First, I uncover from an event study the fact that political connections and government bailouts ...

The board of directors' role in compliance & ethics.

Non-compliance, board structures and the performance of financial firms during crisis: UK Evidence

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Abstract This paper examines the effectiveness of internal corporate governance mechanisms for improving the performance of financial firms in the UK. The ...

Non-compliance, board structures and the performance of financial firms during crisis: UK Evidence

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Abstract This paper examines the effectiveness of internal corporate governance mechanisms for improving the performance of financial firms in the UK. The ...