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Diverse Boards, Divided Outcomes: Ethnic Minority Independent Directors in Focus
Corporate Governance: An International Review, Volume 33, Issue 6, Page 1411-1436, November 2025.ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue This study examines the relationship between the representation of ethnic minority independent directors (hereafter, minority directors) on corporate boards, CEO–employee pay disparity, and workforce diversity. It addresses a critical gap in understanding the effectiveness of minority directors as corporate monitors ...
Aaron Afzali, Hanna Silvola
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A Scalable MCEM Estimator for Spatio-Temporal Autoregressive Models
, 2018 Very large spatio-temporal lattice data are becoming increasingly common across a variety of disciplines. However, estimating interdependence across space and time in large areal datasets remains challenging, as existing approaches are often (i) not ...
Bormann, Nils-Christian +3 more
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CEO‐to‐Employee Pay Ratio and Audit Pricing
Corporate Governance: An International Review, Volume 33, Issue 6, Page 1629-1658, November 2025.ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue This study examines how auditors incorporate CEO‐to‐employee pay ratios into their risk assessments and pricing decisions. Drawing on equity fairness theory, tournament incentives theory, and efficient contracting theory, we also investigate how specific firm characteristics influence the relationship between pay ratios
Pauline Wu, Zhifang Zhang
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Predicting Customer Potential Value: an application in the insurance industry [PDF]
For effective Customer Relationship Management (CRM), it is essential to have information on the potential value of customers. Based on the interplay between potential value and realized value, managers can devise customer specific strategies.
Donkers, A.C.D., Verhoef, P.C.
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Restraining Overconfident CEOs Through Credit Ratings
European Financial Management, Volume 31, Issue 5, Page 1771-1792, November 2025.ABSTRACT Overconfident CEOs significantly reduce their acquisition activity when facing a higher risk of a credit rating downgrade, possibly because credit ratings impact their ability to access external financing. Investment‐grade firms managed by overconfident CEOs that are placed on a negative rating outlook reduce their acquisitiveness by ...
Shee‐Yee Khoo +3 more
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Reputational Damage of Bank Misconduct: The Role of Regulation and ESG Performance
Financial Review, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 1359-1387, November 2025.ABSTRACT This study investigates the reputational losses incurred by banks due to detected misconduct and the impact of bank ESG performance on this reputational damage. We use a unique dataset of 400 fines assigned to 39 European listed banks from 2009 to 2022 by US and EU regulatory agencies.
Alessandro Carretta +2 more
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Property rights and investment in agriculture: Evidence for Ghana [PDF]
This article develops a theoretical framework to examine the relationship between land tenure agreements and households’ investment in land improvement and conservation measures.
Abdulai, Awudu +2 more
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Probit Models with Binary Endogenous Regressors [PDF]
Sample selection and endogeneity are frequent causes of biases in non-experimental empirical studies. In binary models a standard solution involves complex multivariate models. A simple approximation has been shown to work well in bivariate models.
Anders Holm, Jacob Nielsen Arendt
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Food and Energy SecurityClimate‐smart agriculture (CSA) is a set of economically and environmentally friendly practices that can address the issues of food security under the new realities of climate change.
Tibebu Legesse +5 more
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Urban Grassland Plant Communities Assemble According to Productivity and Disturbance Gradients
Journal of Vegetation Science, Volume 36, Issue 6, November/December 2025.The overall variation of urban grasslands is poorly understood. Using a vegetation dataset of 200 urban grasslands in the Helsinki capital region, Finland, we showed that productivity and disturbance were the main drivers of the plant communities. We conclude that long‐term extensive maintenance, reducing nutrients and facilitating dispersal can allow ...
Pasi Pouta +3 more
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