Issues in corporate governance and finance

Corporate downsizing and CEO compensation / Alexandros P. Prezas, Murat Tarimcilar, Gopala K. Vasudevan -- The external monitoring bodies' view of the board independence in the new public family firms / Imants Paeglis, Dogan Tirtiroglu -- Ownership structure, financial rent and performance : evidence from the Malaysian manufacturing sector / Ei Yet Chu -- Board of director configurations in mutual fund sponsors : early evidence of board-level performance / Scott Besley, Steve P. Fraser, Christos Pantzalis -- Expropriation, weak corporate governance and post-IPO performance : Chinese evidence / Peng Cheng, Jean Jinghan Chen, Xinrong Xiao -- Market-value-maximizing ownership structure when investor protection is weak / Beni Lauterbach, Efrat Tolkowsky -- Black-Scholes-Merton, liquidity, and the valuation of executive stock options / Don M. Chance, Tung-Hsiao Yang -- Managerial power in the design of executive compensation : evidence from Japan / Stephen P. Ferris, Kenneth A. Kim, Pattanaporn Kitsabunnarat, Takeshi Nishikawa -- Unobserved heterogeneity and the term-structure of default / Koresh Galil -- Financial sector development and sustainable economic growth in regionally co-integrated emerging markets / Ritab S. Al-Khouri -- The long-term risk effects of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) on the financial services industry / Vijay Gondhalekar, C.R. Narayanaswamy, Sridhar Sundaram -- How do small firms in developing countries raise capital? Evidence from a large-scale survey of Kenyan micro and small-scale enterprises / Christopher J. Green, Peter Kimuyu, Ronny Manos, Victor Murinde -- United States venture capital financial contracting : foreign securities / Douglas J. Cumming -- Operational hedges and foreign-exchange exposure : the experience of U.S. MNC's during the Asian financial crisis / Bill Francis, Iftekhar Hasan, Christos Pantzalis -- Share repurchases in New Zealand / Hardjo Koerniadi, Ming-Hua Liu, Alireza Tourani-Rad -- Corporate governance and performance of banking firms : evidence from Asian emerging markets / Abdul Hadi Zulkafli, Fazilah Abdul Samad -- On the duty of care of institutional investors : evidence on participation of mutual fund managers in shareholder meetings in Israel / Amzaleg Yaron, Ben-Zion Uri, Rosenfeld Ahron -- Good managers invest more and pay less dividends : a model of dividend policy / Nalinaksha Bhattacharyya