The relationship between board size, board composition, CEO duality and firm performance: Experience from Ghana

Board Compensation and Risk-Taking: The Moderating Role of CEO Duality (Evidence from Banking Industry)

  The purpose of this paper is to explore relationship between board compensation and risk taking with regard to CEO duality in the banking industry. Using a panel data regression model, with regard to optimal contracting and managerial power theory, we examined the data to determine the relationship between board compensation and risk taking of twenty one banks, for the period 2012 to 2018. R...

thesis title: a study of the relationship between board composition and firm performance in tse

the ability of boards to perform their roles depends largely on their composition. board composition refers to the number of directors and type of members as determined by the usual insider or outsider classification. several empirical studies in other country have concluded that board composition determines a board’s power as an instrument of corporate control and contributes to company perfor...

The influence of board of director networks and corporate governance on firm performance and CEO compensation

CEO Compensation and Board Oversight

In response to the corporate scandals in 2001-2002, the major U.S. exchanges came up with new regulations which are intended to enhance board oversight. We use this regulation event to shed light on the effect of board oversight on CEO compensation. We find that firms that were not complying with these regulations decreased their CEO compensation by between 20%-25% upon compliance, compared to ...

1 Board Diversity and Firm Performance Volatility

Diverse directors may have diverse preferences over firms’ policies or even objectives. As shown by Arrow (1951), diverse individual preferences may fail to univocally aggregate in collective preferences and may consequently lead to arbitrary and volatile decisions. Using the board of directors as a laboratory, we test whether diversity leads to higher performance volatility. We show that firms...