Front Cover; Global Corporate Governance; Contents; List of Contributors; Financial Performance and the Competitive Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility; Introduction; Motives for Joining the Children's Food and Beverage Initiative; Altruism; Avoid Regulation; Feel Good Cosmetic Action; Hurt Competitors; This Social Responsibility Will also Force the Company to Be More Efficient and Resourceful; Data and Methodology; Findings; Conclusion; Notes; References; Regulation and the Ownership Structure of European Listed Firms; Introduction; Sample and Data Description; Sample Construction Measures of Ownership ConcentrationMeasures of Regulation and Shareholder Protection; Firm Characteristics and Further Control Variables; Ownership Structures of European Listed Firms; Regulation and Ownership Structures; Empirical Design; Shareholder Protection and Overall Ownership Concentration; Shareholder Protection and Concentration of Different Investor Types; Strategic versus Institutional Investors; Differentiating Independent and Grey Institutional Investors; Robustness Tests; Sample Selection Issues; Regulation, Ownership Structure, and Firm Performance; Empirical Design Empirical ResultsRobustness Tests; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; SAMPLE COMPOSITION; CROSS-CHECK OF TOB OWNERSHIP DATA; VARIABLE DESCRIPTION; Ownership Variables; Measures of Regulation and Shareholder Protection; Other Country Characteristics; Firm Characteristics; Determinants of Corporate Leverage in Publicly Listed GCC Companies --
Conventional versus Sukuk; Introduction; Literature Review; Conventional Leverage; Sukuk and Islamic Capital Structure; Hypotheses; Data; Results and Discussions; Conventional Determinants of Conventional Leverage Determinants of Sukuk Using Conventional ModelsConclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Large Shareholders and Target Returns: International Evidence; Introduction; Data and Methodology; MLS Variables; Presence of MLS; Power of MLS; Role of Family versus Non-Family MLS; Control Variables; Empirical Results; Univariate Results; Multivariate Analysis; Type of second largest shareholder; Robustness Checks; Basic Sensitivity Tests; Country Effects and Investor Protection; Endogeneity of MLS Structures; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; APPENDIX: VARIABLE DEFINITIONS A Gender Gap in Executive Cash Compensation in Thailand: A View of the Expectancy TheoryIntroduction; Literature Review; Expectancy Theory; Agency Theory; Stewardship Theory; Motivation Theory; Life Cycle Theory; Data and Methodology; Results; A Gender Gap and the Expectancy Theory; CEO Gender and Firm Characteristics; The Role of Monitoring and Stewardship in the Expectancy Theory; Conclusion; Notes; References; CEO Compensation Practices around Spinoffs; Introduction; RPE, Asymmetric Pay for Skill/Luck, and Compensation Benchmarking; Relative Performance Evaluation (RPE)

Advances in Financial Economics Vol 19 is peer reviewed and focusses on International Corporate Governance.