Corporate governance - important determinants in a changing landscape.

• Main Authors: Koh, Shu Ming., Lim, Han Pin., Yeo, Ernest Yingcai.
• Other Authors: Geisler, Charlene
• Format: Final Year Project
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::Finance::Corporate governance
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/10060
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We investigate how corporate governance is affected by salient factors such as CEO duality, presence of at least 2 female directors and stockownership concentration using a sample of S&P 500 firms across 5 years, from 2000 to 2004. Our proxy for good corporate governance is better firm performan...