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Bank efficiency in Middle East and North African countries: Does political connection type matter?
This study examines the effects of the political connections of chief executive officers (CEOs) or directors on technical, allocative, and cost bank efficiencies examining a panel of 144 banks operating in 12 Middle Eastern and North African (MENA ...
Naima Lassoued +2 more
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A Recent Literature Review on Corporate Political Connections
It has always been an interesting issue deliberating the connectedness between corporation and political power. There have been a substantial number of papers in the academic literature empirically studying what so call corporate political connections ...
Irwan Trinugroho
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Politically Connected Governments [PDF]
ABSTRACTThis paper examines the consequences of powerful political connections for local governments. We find that governments located within the constituencies of, and thus connected to, powerful congressional members reduce their stewardship over public resources.
CHRISTINE CUNY +2 more
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Political connections have an essential role in the earnings management strategy. Political connections can influence earnings management practices.
Enni Savitri
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Political connections provide substantial benefits to firms. We emphasize the ownership of firms as an important channel through which political connections operate and identify a resulting link between political turnover and turnover in the ownership of firms: Political turnover prompts newly politically connected individuals to take, and newly ...
Timm Betz, Amy Pond
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The Impact of Political Connections on Overinvestment and Firm Performance [PDF]
Objective: Overinvestment is a type of investment behavior that results from greater access to free cash flows. Usually, access to external resources is more in companies with strong political connections.
Younes Badavar Nahandi +1 more
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Political connection is an expensive resource that can be a source of competitive advantage for a bank. Banks that have political connections will be able to get funding at a lower cost because depositors feel that their funds are safe.
Muazaroh Muazaroh +2 more
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The effect of corporate governance on earnings management moderated by political connection
Research aims: This research aims to prove the effect of independent commissioner performance and audit committee expertise on earnings management to avoid earnings decreases and political connections to strengthen independent commissioner performance ...
Rini Adriani Auliana +2 more
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The Cost of Political Connections [PDF]
Abstract Using plant-level data from France, we document a potential cost of political connections for firms that is not offset by other benefits. Politically connected CEOs alter corporate employment decisions to help (regional) politicians in their re-election efforts by having higher job and plant creation rates, and lower rates of
Bertrand, Marianne +3 more
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Corporate Governance, Political Connections, and Bank Performance
This study investigates the impact of corporate governance characteristics and political connections of directors on the profitability of banks in Pakistan. The study uses the data of 26 domestic banks over the latest and large period of 2007−2016.
Muhammad Haris +4 more
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