scholarly journals Chair-CEO age variation and insurance risk-taking behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Demeh Daradkah

Based on data of all listed insurance companies in Jordan over the period of 2008-2018, the study investigates the effect of chairman of the board of directors (chair) and chief executive officer (CEO) age variation on risk-taking behavior via different chair-CEO age variation proxies. Risk-taking behavior is measured by total risk, a proxy set up on the market’s risk perception. Thus, the study finds evidence that the chair-CEO age variation tends to decrease risk-taking practice in Jordan’s insurance companies, only if a generation gap exists. It doesn’t matter whether the chair or CEO is older. These results are consistent with Goergen, Limbach, and Scholz (2015) and Zhou, Kara, and Molyneux (2019). Different robustness tests (CEO-firm fixed effect, random effect, and dynamic panel estimation) confirm results. Overall, this study contributes to corporate governance literature; thus, enhancing the internal corporate governance mechanism is essential. Finally, it has a practical implication for stakeholders, policymakers, and researchers.

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-119
Author(s):  
Sule Ba’aba ◽  
Mahmud Bashiru

The serious decline in the price of crude oil in recent years has led the state government to look for new sources of revenue and becomes strict and aggressive to the assessment and collection of revenue from the existing sources. This study examines the impact of Corporate Governance Attributes on Tax planning of listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria and Malaysia. The corporate governance parameters include board size and CEO tenure while tax planning is proxied by the effective tax rate and firm size as control variable. The objective is to determine if there is a relationship between corporate governance attributes and tax planning which in turn may improve firm performance. The study adopts comparative and ex-post facto research design and will utilise panel data from annual reports and accounts of the listed companies for the period of five years (2014-2018). The Data were analysed using a panel regression technique to assess the effect of the independent variables on the dependent variable. Hausman specification test was conducted to choose between fixed and random effect estimation and the p-value is0.9863 which insignificant. The resultsfrom random effect estimation modelindicates a negative and significant relationship between CEOT, FSIZE and ETR and a positive relationship between BSIZE and ETR.Therefore, the study concludes that corporate governance mechanism plays a significant role in tax planning and Nigerian manufacturing companies pays high tax charges as compare to Malaysian food and beverages companies.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal Javaid

Corporate governance is considered to have significant impact on the growth and development perspective of an economy. Sound corporate governance practices leads the economy towards the achievement of higher performance, provide sources for capital investment by increasing the creditability of shareholders. The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the relationship of corporate governance and firm performance in terms of accounting as well as market performance i.e.to be measured by Return on asset, Return on equity and Tobin’s Q. The theoretical base to conduct the study is the demand of separation of ownership and control characterize as agency theory. The previous studies have yielded inconsistent result. To achieve the purpose 58 textile sector companies were selected listed in the Karachi stock exchange and data was taken from annual reports of the companies for the period of 2009 to 2013. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and regression estimation using pooled, fixed effect, random effect and Hausman specification test were carried out after developing a composite index based on 21 proxies. The result entails that corporate governance index (CGI) and firm performance has positive and significant association but the relationship for each specific index is dependent upon the measure of firm performance. The result also shows that companies having strong corporate governance mechanism has greater chances to acquire finance. The implication of study demands that the reform effort should be directed towards the improvement in internal corporate governance mechanism and regulatory framework for the governance system.


2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal Javaid ◽  
Abdul Saboor

Corporate governance is considered to have significant impact on the growth and development perspective of an economy. Sound corporate governance practices leads the economy towards the achievement of higher performance, provide sources for capital investment by increasing the creditability of shareholders. The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the relationship of corporate governance and firm performance in terms of accounting as well as market performance i.e.to be measured by Return on asset, Return on equity and Tobin’s Q. The theoretical base to conduct the study is the demand of separation of ownership and control characterize as agency theory. The previous studies have yielded inconsistent result. To achieve the purpose 58 manufacturing sector companies were selected listed in the Karachi stock exchange and data was taken from annual reports of the companies for the period of 2009 to 2013. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and regression estimation using pooled, fixed effect, random effect and Hausman specification test were carried out after developing a composite index based on 21 proxies. The result entails that corporate governance index (CGI) and firm performance has positive and significant association but the relationship for each specific index is dependent upon the measure of firm performance. The result also shows that companies having strong corporate governance mechanism has greater chances to acquire finance. The implication of study demands that the reform effort should be directed towards the improvement in internal corporate governance mechanism and regulatory framework for the governance system.


2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Wiwit Widyawati ◽  
Triyono Triyono

This study examines the relationship between the corporate governance perception index and firm characteristics are proxied by institutional ownership , profitability (ROA), growth opportunities (growth sales) and size on the risk-taking behavior judged by market stock returns. The population are company that list in Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) and Indonesian Institute for Corporate Governance (IICG) from 2006-2012. Sample was collected based on purposive sampling and resulted in 91 companies as a final sample. Data was collected from Indonesian Capital market Directory (ICMD) and The Indonesian Institute for Corporate Governance (IICG). Its was analyzed with multiple regression analysis. The results indicated that corporate governance perception index, institutional ownership, growth sales and size have significant effect on investor’s risk-taking behavior. But ROA does not impact on investor’s risk-taking behavior. Keywords : corporate governance perception index, firm’s characteristic, risk-taking behavior.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Abid Ali Shah ◽  
Muhammad Aamir ◽  
Irum Saba ◽  
Zeeshan Mahmood

Purpose: In the developing country like Pakistan the agency problem may have different dimensions as it may not only be among the ownership and the management but also regarding the expropriation of the corporate profits by the largest shareholder at the cost of the many small shareholders. This paper examines the relationship between the Ownership Structure with its two dimensions i.e. Ownership Type and Concentration with the Corporate Governance adaptation level by the firms and its Financial Performance and Risk Taking Behavior judged by the Stock Market Returns. Methodology: The analysis was conducted in three sections using Panel Data Estimation using the data from 2006 to 2010 for 40 listed KSE firms. Findings: The results indicates that the improvement in the Corporate Practices increase the firm’s financial performance and reduction in the level of risk during undertaking of the riskier ventures. The Corporate Governance also has negative relationship with the Ownership Concentration proving the fact that the increase in the level of the ownership concentration results in the reduction of the level of good practices by the firms. Practical Implications: These results also provided a view of the Corporate Structure of the Pakistani firms and prove the fact that the Ownership Concentrated in single largest owner results in the reduction of Corporate Governance level and the Financial Performance of the firms and also results in the increase in the level of the risk undertaken by the firms.


2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Talat Ulussever

This study examines whether the multi-layer corporate governance mode of Islamic banking system can prevent Islamic banks from excessive risk taking and hence protect against its fallibility to the global financial crisis. Employing the random-effects GLS method with two-step GMM method for the robustness check and using the dataset of total 154 banks over the period of 2005–2011, the results show that the corporate governance and financial disclosure indices appear as the motivating factors for risk taking attitudes of Islamic banks. Thus, the governance mechanism of Islamic banks is effective in protecting them against their fallibility to the global financial crisis.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 1869
Author(s):  
Prilo Krisnu Pradana ◽  
Lina Nugraha Rani

ABSTRAKIndonesia menjadi salah satu negara yang terimbas paling parah dari adanya krisis 1997/1998 dimana kualitas tata kelola dari perbankan saat itu dianggap sebagai akar masalah, khususnya terkait berlebihnya perilaku risk-taking dalam hal peminjaman yang menurunkan performa bank. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh Corporate Governance terhadap Risk Taking Behaviour pada Bank Umum Syariah di Indonesia periode 2012-2019. Teknik analisis yang digunakan adalah analisis regresi data panel menggunakan software Eviews 9 dengan metode purposive sampling. Corporate Governance diukur dengan proporsi perempuan (direktur, dewan pengawas syariah, komite audit, komite pemantau risiko), proporsi Independensi (komisaris independen dan komite audit independen) dan proporsi Keahlian Keuangan (direksi, dewan pengawas syariah dan komite audit), sedangkan untuk Risk Taking Behaviour diukur menggunakan Z-score. Hasil olah data menunjukkan bahwa independensi berpengaruh positif dan signifikan, gender diversity pada direksi dan komite audit dan pemantau risiko berpengaruh positif dan signifikan, sementara dewan pengawas syariah perempuan berpengaruh negative signifikan.  Keahlian keuangan komite audit berpengaruh positif signifikan, sementara pada direksi dan dewan pengawas syariah berpengaruh positif tetapi tidak signifikan. Secara simultan, hasil pengujian menunjukkan bahwa good corporate governance berpengaruh terhadap risk taking behaviour pada bank umum syariah di Indonesia.Kata Kunci: Corporate Governance, Risk Taking Behaviour, Gender Diversity, Independensi, Keahlian Keuangan, Bank Umum Syariah, Z-score ABSTRACTIndonesia became one of the worst countries that affected by the 1997/1998 crisis where the quality of governance from the banking sector at that time was seen as the root of the problem, especially related to excess risk-taking behavior in terms of lending which reduced bank performance. This study aims to examine the effect of Corporate Governance on Risk-Taking Behavior in Islamic Banks in Indonesia from 2012-2019. The analysis technique used is panel data regression analysis assisted by Eviews 9 software, the authors use a purposive sampling method to determine the research sample. Good Corporate Governance is measured by the proportion of Gender Diversity (directors, sharia supervisory boards, audit committees, risk monitoring committees), the proportion of Independence (commissioners and audit committees) and the proportion of Financial Expertise (directors, sharia supervisory boards and audit committees), while for Risk-Taking Behavior is measured using a Z-score. The results of the research showed that partially, independence has a positive and significant effect, gender diversity on the directors, audit and risk monitoring committee has a positive and significant effect, while the female sharia supervisory board has a significant negative effect. The audit committee's financial expertise has a significant positive effect, while the sharia directors and supervisory boards have a positive but not significant effect. Simultaneously, the test results show that corporate governance affects the risk-taking behavior of Islamic commercial banks in Indonesia.Keywords: Good Corporate Governance, Risk-Taking Behavior, Gender Diversity, Independence, Financial Expertise, Islamic Commercial Banks, Z-score


2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed A. Elamer ◽  
Aws AlHares ◽  
Collins G. Ntim ◽  
Ismail Benyazid

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