Do Independent Directors Cause Improvements in Firm Transparency?
Although recent research documents a positive relation between corporate transparency and the proportion of independent directors, the direction of causality is unclear. We examine a regulatory shock that substantially increased board independence for some firms, and find that information asymmetry,...
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Elsevier B.V.
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87636 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9424-3406 |