Tag Archives: governance

The Effect of Financial Reporting on Strategic Investments: Evidence from Purchase Obligations 

By | August 11, 2022
0 Comment

Firms make investments to increase their future profits because they help reduce production costs, increase capacity, or upgrade their products or services. However, firms do not always make investments to improve production efficiency or customer demand. They often make investments to strategically influence competitors’ behavior. Due to their costly-to-reverse and time-bound nature, investments signal credible… Read More »

Are Foreign Donors Good Monitors?

By | June 28, 2021
0 Comment

Economic and accounting literature has long found that foreign investments provide a multitude of benefits to local stock markets and economies. Foreign inflows to for-profit firms are found to harvest not only capital but also managerial and marketing skills in addition to business connections and human resource development. For-profit foreign institutional investors have also been… Read More »

The Role of the Board’s Financial Expertise in the IPO Process

By | June 4, 2021
0 Comment

Since the 1970s, the underpricing of IPOs has been a well-observed phenomenon and many issuers see their stock price rising sharply on the first day of trading, which means that the IPO firm could have realized higher proceeds from the offering (“money left on the table”). As a result, venture capitalists and Silicon Valley companies recently expressed their… Read More »

The Importance of Firm-Specific Knowledge in Audit Committee Chair Successions

By | June 2, 2021
0 Comment

The audit committee chair is considered the cornerstone of the audit committee. Charged with directing the committee’s activities, the chair sets the agenda and presides over its meetings. The chair must ensure that committee members focus on key issues and fulfill their roles as part of the group. The chair also acts as the liaison between the… Read More »

What Is the Impact of Mutual Funds’ ESG Preferences on Portfolio Firms?

By | May 27, 2021
0 Comment

Institutional ownership has increased tremendously over the past few decades. This shift in ownership has led to major concerns as to whether institutional investors have the incentives or the tools to be active shareholders. Assessing how effective institutional investors are in their stewardship activities has therefore become critical. However, such an assessment has proven difficult,… Read More »