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Author : Ozge Uygur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)
Download or read book CEO POLITICAL DONATIONS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE written by Ozge Uygur and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Administration/Finance
Author : Peter A. Gourevitch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400837014
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Political Power and Corporate Control written by Peter A. Gourevitch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does corporate governance--front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat--vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics shapes corporate governance--how managers, shareholders, and workers jockey for advantage in setting the rules by which companies are run, and for whom they are run. It combines a clear theoretical model on this political interaction, with statistical evidence from thirty-nine countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America and detailed narratives of country cases. This book differs sharply from most treatments by explaining differences in minority shareholder protections and ownership concentration among countries in terms of the interaction of economic preferences and political institutions. It explores in particular the crucial role of pension plans and financial intermediaries in shaping political preferences for different rules of corporate governance. The countries examined sort into two distinct groups: diffuse shareholding by external investors who pick a board that monitors the managers, and concentrated blockholding by insiders who monitor managers directly. Examining the political coalitions that form among or across management, owners, and workers, the authors find that certain coalitions encourage policies that promote diffuse shareholding, while other coalitions yield blockholding-oriented policies. Political institutions influence the probability of one coalition defeating another.
Author : Louise I. Gerdes
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0737776552
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Super PACs written by Louise I. Gerdes and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passage of Citizens United by the Supreme Court in 2010 sparked a renewed debate about campaign spending by large political action committees, or Super PACs. Its ruling said that it is okay for corporations and labor unions to spend as much as they want in advertising and other methods to convince people to vote for or against a candidate. This book provides a wide range of opinions on the issue. Includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives; eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials, and many others.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Corporate Governance After Citizens United written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rajesh K. Aggarwal
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Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Corporate Political Donations written by Rajesh K. Aggarwal and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine corporate donations to political candidates for federal offices in the United States from 1991 to 2004. Firms that donate have operating characteristics consistent with the existence of a free cash flow problem, and donations are negatively correlated with returns. A $10,000 increase in donations is associated with a reduction in annual excess returns of 7.4 basis points. Worse corporate governance is associated with larger donations. Even after controlling for corporate governance, donations are associated with lower returns. Donating firms engage in more acquisitions and their acquisitions have significantly lower cumulative abnormal announcement returns than non-donating firms. We find virtually no support for the hypothesis that donations represent an investment in political capital. Instead, political donations are symptomatic of agency problems within firms. Our results are particularly useful in light of the Citizens United ruling, which is likely to greatly increase the use of corporate funds for political donations.
Author : United States
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Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Federal Election Campaign Laws written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Waquar Ahmad
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Essays in Corporate Governance written by Waquar Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation titled "Essays in Corporate Governance" contains two essays in matters relating to corporations and their governance practices. The titles and the abstracts of the two papers are presented below. Does it pay to play? Political donations around mergers and acquisitions: This study focuses on corporate political donations around mergers and acquisitions of U.S. firms. I track the political contributions made by firms involved in large U.S. mergers from 2000 to 2010 by focusing on four different ways that corporations contribute to political parties: political action committee (PAC) donations, PAC to PAC donations, soft money and 527 committees' donations, and individual donations. Consistent with politicians' rent-seeking behavior, I document evidence that participants in mergers and acquisitions alter their donations around these deals in attempts to influence the deal outcome and appear to do so particularly around deals where donations may be more effective. Overall, I find that large shifts in donations around mergers and acquisitions increase the likelihood of deal completion. After controlling for firm and merger characteristics, the firms involved in mergers make more political contributions after a deal is announced compared to periods before the announcement and after a deal is finalized. This behavior is more pronounced when the deal continues for an extended period of time, which is consistent with the notion that these deals may face more regulatory hurdles and donations may likely impact the merger outcome. Furthermore, I document higher bidder and target abnormal donations after a merger announcement when the market reaction is negative. Finally, donation intensity increases when the merger would cause the industry concentrations ratios to increase above normal. These results collectively suggest that firms aggressively manage political donations around merger and acquisition activity, potentially indicating agency conflicts driving these donations. Director Alpha: An objective measure of director contribution: The appointment of high value directors is associated with immediate positive market reaction, and the presence of high value directors in the board enhances long-run firm value. We identify the contribution of directors by alpha, or the abnormal risk-adjusted stock returns that are generated in other firms on whose boards they sit. We find that investors react positively when high alpha directors are appointed to high alpha boards. CEOs and individuals with MBA or CPA designations are more likely to be high value directors. We find that high alpha directors contribute significantly to firm value. For the typical firm, our parameter estimates imply that replacing a negative alpha director with a positive one is associated with a 3.3% improvement in firm value.
Author : Wang Dong
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Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book CEO Political Ideology and Audit Pricing written by Wang Dong and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the association between CEOs' political ideologies, proxied by CEOs' federal-level personal political contributions to the Republican Party relative to the Democratic Party, and audit fees of the firms that the CEOs manage. We hypothesize and find that firms run by CEOs whose political ideologies are aligned with the Republican Party pay lower audit fees than firms run by CEOs whose political ideologies are aligned with the Democratic Party. This finding is robust to various sensitivity checks and to controls for potential endogeneity and self-selection concerns. In addition, we find that CEO political ideology affects audit risk as proxied by financial reporting quality and client business risk, which, in turn, influence audit fees, suggesting that financial reporting quality and client business risk are two channels through which CEO political ideology affects audit fees. Finally, we find that the association between CEO political ideology and audit fees is more pronounced when corporate governance is weaker. Overall, our results suggest that CEO political ideology is a factor that influences audit risk and auditors incorporate such a factor in their audit pricing decisions.
Author : Yi Lu
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Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Corporate and Managerial Private Interests as Motives for Corporate Political Donations in Australia written by Yi Lu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines corporate political donations in relation to corporate interest motives and managerial private interest motives, and the moderating effects of corporate governance mechanisms. Corporate interest motives are represented by measures of exposure to decision-making by government and its agencies. The private interest motives of managers and directors are proxied by the degree of corporate political donation influence from the professional and social networks of managers and directors. To examine the effects of corporate governance mechanisms, I use number of blockholders, composition of board of directors and directors' shareholdings as potential monitors.
Author : Hao Liang
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Corporate Donations and Shareholder Value written by Hao Liang and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do corporate donations enhance shareholder wealth or reflect agency problems? We address this question for a global sample of firms whereby we distinguish between charitable and political donations, as well as between donations in cash and in kind. We find that charitable donations are positively related to financial performance and firm value, which is consistent with the value-enhancement hypothesis. This positive effect on firm value is stronger for cash than in-kind donations. In contrast, political donations do not appear to enhance shareholder value, but rather tend to reflect agency problems, as they are higher for firms with poor internal corporate governance and strong managerial entrenchment. We address endogeneity concerns by using peer firms' donations as an instrument in a two-stage least squares (2SLS) setting and by conducting a difference-in-difference analysis around a general election.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264116052
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Corporate Governance Strengthening Latin American Corporate Governance The Role of Institutional Investors written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reflects long-term, in-depth discussion and debate by participants in the Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance.
Author : United States. Federal Election Commission
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Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Public Funding of Presidential Elections written by United States. Federal Election Commission and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert E. Mutch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199340005
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Buying the Vote written by Robert E. Mutch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Campaign finance reform has always been motivated by a definition of democracy that does not count corporations as citizens and holds that self-government works best by reducing political inequality. In the early years of the twentieth century, Congress recognized the strength of these principles by prohibiting corporations from making campaign contributions, passing a disclosure law, and setting limits on campaign expenditures. These reforms were not controversial at the time, but conservative opposition to them appeared in the 1970s. That opposition was well represented in the Supreme Court, which has rolled back reform by granting First Amendment rights to corporations and declaring the goal of reducing political inequality to be unconstitutional. Buying the Vote analyzes the rise and decline of campaign finance reform by tracking changes in the way presidential campaigns have been funded since the late nineteenth century, and changes in the debate over how to reform fundraising practices. A close examination of major Supreme Court decisions shows how the Court has fashioned a new and profoundly inegalitarian redefinition of American democracy"--
Author : Katherine M. Gehl
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1633699242
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)
Download or read book The Politics Industry written by Katherine M. Gehl and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading political innovation activist Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter bring fresh perspective, deep scholarship, and a real and actionable solution, Final Five Voting, to the grand challenge of our broken political and democratic system. Final Five Voting has already been adopted in Alaska and is being advanced in states across the country. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work, and it isn't designed or optimized today to work for us—for ordinary citizens. Most people believe that our political system is a public institution with high-minded principles and impartial rules derived from the Constitution. In reality, it has become a private industry dominated by a textbook duopoly—the Democrats and the Republicans—and plagued and perverted by unhealthy competition between the players. Tragically, it has therefore become incapable of delivering solutions to America's key economic and social challenges. In fact, there's virtually no connection between our political leaders solving problems and getting reelected. In The Politics Industry, business leader and path-breaking political innovator Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter take a radical new approach. They ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis—and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework—to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does, and how the duopoly has led to the devastating outcomes we see today. Using this competition lens, Gehl and Porter identify the most powerful lever for change—a strategy comprised of a clear set of choices in two key areas: how our elections work and how we make our laws. Their bracing assessment and practical recommendations cut through the endless debate about various proposed fixes, such as term limits and campaign finance reform. The result: true political innovation. The Politics Industry is an original and completely nonpartisan guide that will open your eyes to the true dynamics and profound challenges of the American political system and provide real solutions for reshaping the system for the benefit of all. THE INSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION The authors will donate all royalties from the sale of this book to the Institute for Political Innovation.
Author : Randall K. Morck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226536831
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book A History of Corporate Governance around the World written by Randall K. Morck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the United States, capitalism seems like an initiative that serves only to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a few hereditary oligarchies. As A History of Corporate Governance around the World shows, neither conception is wrong. In this volume, some of the brightest minds in the field of economics present new empirical research that suggests that each side of the debate has something to offer the other. Free enterprise and well-developed financial systems are proven to produce growth in those countries that have them. But research also suggests that in some other capitalist countries, arrangements truly do concentrate corporate ownership in the hands of a few wealthy families. A History of Corporate Governance around the World provides historical studies of the patterns of corporate governance in several countries-including the large industrial economies of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States; larger developing economies like China and India; and alternative models like those of the Netherlands and Sweden.
Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199606412
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Governance: A Very Short Introduction written by Mark Bevir and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generally referring to all forms of social coordination and patterns of rule, the term 'governance' is used in many different contexts. In this Very Short Introduction, Mark Bevir explores the main theories of governance and considers their impact on ideas of governance in the corporate, public, and global arenas.
Author : Robert A. G. Monks
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405116985
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Corporate Governance written by Robert A. G. Monks and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2003-12-19 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the dramatic series of corporate meltdowns: Enron; Tyco; Adelphia; WorldCom; the timely new edition of this successful text provides students and business professionals with a welcome update of the key issues facing managers, boards of directors, investors, and shareholders. In addition to its authoritative overview of the history, the myth and the reality of corporate governance, this new edition has been updated to include: analysis of the latest cases of corporate disaster; An overview of corporate governance guidelines and codes of practice in developing and emerging markets new cases: Adelphia; Arthur Andersen; Tyco Laboratories; Worldcom; Gerstner's pay packet at IBM Once again in the new edition of their textbook, Robert A. G. Monks and Nell Minow show clearly the role of corporate governance in making sure the right questions are asked and the necessary checks and balances in place to protect the long-term, sustainable value of the enterprise. A CD-ROM containing a comprehensive case study of the Enron collapse, complete with senate hearings and video footage, accompanies the text. Further lecturer resources and links are available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/monks
