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Deregulation and Board Policies: Evidence from Performance Measures Used in Bank CEO Turnover Decisions

Harvard Corporate Governance

The banking industry has undergone substantial changes since the late 1970s, largely due to deregulation and rapid market developments. Over that period, banks’ growth opportunities expanded, and banks entered new markets, both geographic and product. This post is based on their recent paper , forthcoming in The Accounting Review.

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ESG Investing Clearly Serves Pecuniary Interests

Reynolds Holding

Risk-return ESG investing…can be permissible on the same terms as any other kind of active investment strategy that seeks to exploit market mispricing (what we will call active investing) or shareholder control rights (what we will call active shareholding) for profit. [8] Mining.com, July 6, 2017. 3°C by 2100. [25] Available here. [14]

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Why Do Companies Going Public Choose Controversial Governance Structures, and Why Do Investors Let Them?

Reynolds Holding

Over the past three decades, there has been increasing concern about how corporate governance structures such as classified boards and dual class stock entrench managers, reduce director effectiveness, and reduce firm value. Likely as a result, mature firms have increasingly eliminated these structures.

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Boardroom Gender-Diversity Reforms and Institutional Monitoring

Reynolds Holding

While investors play a critical role in engaging with company boards and are increasingly focused on social equity, the evidence is scant on how these reforms affect investors’ monitoring role. This gap also contrasts with regulators’ reliance on investors to help ensure firms’ faithful implementation of the reforms. mutual funds).

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What the Rise of Indexing Means for Corporate Governance

Reynolds Holding

Domestic passive funds and ETFs now manage more than half of all assets under management (AUM) of domestic equity mutual funds and ETFs, and the Big Three passive fund managers (BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard) cast over a quarter of the votes in S&P 500 companies. Fahlenbrach (2017). Michaely, and M.C. Ringgenberg (2022).

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ESG A Valuation Framework

Value Scope

How do you justify making substantial investments and fundamental changes to corporate structures and culture without empirical evidence that it will make a direct impact on shareholder value, total shareholder return, net present value, and individual rates of return? . Do ESG programs impact firm value? Technology.