Document for discussion at the seminar, “Latin America After a Decade of Reforms: What Comes Next?” during the Annual Meetings of the Inter-American Development Bank in Barcelona, March 16, 1997. The opinions expressed in this document do not necessarily reflect the viewpoints of the IDB management or its Board of Executive Directors. The author is grateful for the help of Felipe Barrera and Ma...

The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this study are entirely those of the authors and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations, or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countries they represent. Taxing bads by taxing goods : pollution control with presumptive charges / Gunnar S. Eskeland, Shantayanan Devaraj...

According to agency theory, the interests of shareholders are safeguarded only where different people occupying the two positions of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the chairman of the board of directors. This implies that CEO duality (i.e. the CEO serves also as the board chairman) is negatively associated with corporate performance. However, empirical evidence is mixed with respect to t...

The article examines the impact of сorporate governance factors on еnvironmental, social, and rating in companies from industrial IT sectors. aim this study is to identify measure corporate ESG research also includes a country-specific analysis: for European, Asian American companies. dependent variable — an indicator company’s compliance with environmental, social standards. paper considers ob...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to obtain a list of desirable skills and attributes of prospective educational programme directors as judged by potential employers of future directors. DESIGN An international mail survey was conducted worldwide, using a one-page, open-ended questionnaire. SETTING University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. SUBJECTS Deans, department heads and chief e...

We examine the effect of the incentives of the members of the board of directors on shareholder wealth, CEO compensation and the sensitivity of this compensation to corporate performance in laboratory setting. Two methods of appointing the board, one by the CEO and the other by the largest shareholder, constitute the main treatment. The board sets the compensation for the CEO, who makes product...

For seasoned executive directors and board leaders, the strategic planning process may be old hat. But for new EDs less experienced members, it can indeed daunting. There are many questions that come up, like who should involved? Who take lead? Is best to leave a special committee, or have whole And, just how important is it? Can skipped?

As an important topic in the field of corporate governance, influence board directors’ characteristics on profitability corporations is examined here. This paper examines and chief executive officers’ (CEO) banks Serbia. In this study, boards directors were terms size participation women, CEOs similarly women’s participation. The research was conducted a sample 23 commercial from Serbia period ...

The aim of this research is to explore the relationship of corporate governance with firm risk. This study establishes a link between corporate governance variables and firm risk for a sample of 106 Pakistani firms over a time of six years (20052010). Based on the estimation results, family control and bank control have negative impact on the firm risk whereas ownership structure and chairman/C...