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Corporate governance and cost of debt financing: Empirical evidence from Canada
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
We explore the impact of the Globe and Mail corporate governance index on bond spreads in a sample of Canadian listed companies. The index is composed of four sub-indices—board composition/structure, board compensation, ...
Employee welfare and stock price crash risk
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
We examine whether employee welfare practices are associated with future stock price crash risk. Two competing hypotheses were tested: the stakeholder theory hypothesis & the agency theory hypothesis. According to the ...
Demand for audit quality in newly privatized firms in MENA region: Role of internal corporate governance mechanisms audit
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
This paper examines whether post- privatization internal governance mechanisms act in a complementary or substitutable fashion in determining auditor choice of newly privatized firms in the Middle East and North Africa ...