Corporate Boards and the Leverage and Debt Maturity Choices

By Jarrad Harford, Kai Li, Xinlei Zhao. 2007

143 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Finance

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0cbd37b24a9abd199d0199bba11cd1396b0bc77f

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In Accounting

1. Haithem Nagati
2. Mehdi Nekhili
3. Tawhid Chtioui
4. Moez Bennouri
5. Mengling Zhou
6. Kexin Li
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In Finance

1. Mehdi Nekhili
2. Moez Bennouri
3. Mengling Zhou
4. Kexin Li
5. Haithem Nagati
6. Zhongfei Chen
7. Tawhid Chtioui

Citations in the corpus

• Corporate governance quality and financial leverage: Evidence from China (2020, background): “The majority of studies on corporate governance outside of China focus on some particular aspect of the corporate governance system (Bhagat & Bolton, 2019), such as board structure (Harford et al., 2008), CEO characteristics (Malmendier et al.”
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Debt Maturity (2015, unknown): “Third, we extend prior research that suggests firms with better corporate governance (measured by stronger boards) issue more short-term debt (Harford et al., 2008).”
• Does board gender diversity affect corporate cash holdings? (2019, unknown): “We also employ instrumental variable (IV) approach (two-stage least squares - 2SLS) to adjust for the potential endogeneity of the percentage of female directors on the board (Harford et al., 2008).”
• Capital Structure and Corporate Governance Quality: Evidence from the Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) (2012, unknown): “…(Cremers et al., 2007), corporate diversification (Jiraporn et al., 2006), cash holding (Dittmar & Mahrt-Smith, 2007), debt maturity structure (Harford et al., 2008), CEO compensation (Fahlenbrach, 2009), institutional ownership (Ciceksever et al., 2006), and liquidity (Chung et al., 2010).”
• Female board directorship and firm performance: What really matters? (2018, background): “The ain difference between ROA and ROE measures derives from ebt structure, which can be influenced by the board composiion ( Harford et al., 2008 ).”
• The Effect of Corporate Governance on Stock Liquidity: The Case of Thailand (2014, unknown): “3 See Brown and Caylor (2006), Gompers, Ishii, and Metrick (2003), Ciceksever, Kale, and Ryan (2006), Cremers, Nair, and Wei (2007), Jiraporn, Kim, Davidson, and Singh (2006), Dittmar and Mahrt-Smith (2007), Harford, Li, and Zhao (2007), Fahlenbrach (2008), and Chung, Elder, and Kim (2010).”
• The international zero-leverage phenomenon (2013, unknown): “Harford et al. (2006) suggest that firms with better corporate governance, i.e., firms with more independent boards, hold less debt.”