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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Corporate Misconduct"”.
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THREE ESSAYS ON SOCIAL NETWORKS, CORPORATE MISCONDUCT, AND FIRM VALUE
This dissertation focuses on corporate misconduct in complex institutional environments. In particular, I examine how listed firms’ kinship networks and political connections shape their engagement in financial misconduct and the firm value at the onset of their misconduct scandal. The first study …
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Three Essays On Diversification Strategy, Diversification Performance, And Corporate Misconduct
… commonly found in the literature pertaining to corporate diversification (Berger and Ofek, 1995). Prior studies have had difficulty identifying the source of the discount due to data limitations from traditional sources. We use a sample of U.S. property casualty insurers with performance data …
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Corporate misconduct, human rights, and the challenges of extraterritorial solutions
… to bring human rights standards to bear on corporate misconduct, and does so through an analysis of the dilemmas they raise. The background to the research is the difficulty of imposing human rights standards on transnational business operating in ‘host’ countries where, for various reasons, …
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The Impact of Board Characteristics on Earnings Management: Evidence From South Africa
As a result of the corporate scandals of high-profile companies such as WorldCom, Lehman Brothers, Enron, Toshiba, and Olympus (Gillan, 2006; Jiang et al., 2010; Neville et al., 2019), prior studies have questioned the effectiveness of the board of directors’ characteristics in restraining …
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Essays in Corporate Finance
… contains three essays that explore topics in corporate finance and banking. Chapter 1 studies the role of board's political connections in corporate misconduct. Leveraging a policy shock in China that mandated politically connected directors to resign from corporate boards, I find that …
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The Effect of Self-Disclosing Misconduct on Supplier-Customer Contracting: Does It Pay to Be Transparent?
… contracts with government customers, I show that corporate suppliers' self-disclosure of misconduct to customers affects their future contracting prospects with those customers. Employing a generalized difference-in-differences design, I exploit a disclosure requirement mandating supplier firms to …