Editorial: Corporate governance dynamics and financial stability in a world of crisis

Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs OECD Steering Group on Corporate Governance Paper: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

Financial crisis and the dynamics of corporate governance: Evidence from Taiwan's listed firms

Available online 24 January 2014 This study complements the governance literature by investigating how Taiwan listed firms adjusted their governance structure to cope with the 2008 financial crisis. The results from the principal component analysis (PCA) suggest that there are significant differences in the factor scores, such as Board Power (of the Largest Shareholders), Information Transparen...

Corporate governance in the 2007¬タモ2008 financial crisis: Evidence from financial institutions worldwide

Article history: Received 27 September 2011 Received in revised form 15 January 2012 Accepted 17 January 2012 Available online 28 January 2012 This paper investigates the influence of corporate governance on financial firms' performance during the 2007–2008 financial crisis. Using a unique dataset of 296 financial firms from 30 countries that were at the center of the crisis, we find that firms...

Financial Stability in Islamic Banking System the Capacity to React to Current World Wide Crisis

 This paper investigates the financial stability, measured by z-score technique in Islamic banking system of 20 countries from 2000 to 2010. We compare the stability of Islamic banks to the commercial banks, before and after the financial crisis. The empirical results from panel estimation show that: a) the large Islamic banks are more stable than the large commercial banks and furthermo...

Does governance make a difference to corporate performance in the financial crisis ? UK

This paper examines the effectiveness of internal corporate governance mechanisms for improving the performance of financial firms in the UK. Using Generalised Methods of Moments (GMM) estimates that control for dynamic endogeneity, this study shows that firm performance as measured by Total Shareholder Returns (TSR) and Return on Equity (ROE) is negatively associated with the level of non-comp...