AGW 723: Seminar in Financial Decision Making (2010-11)

Salam and dear All,

Welcome to AGW 723/3 (Seminar in Financial Decision Making) for the DBA programme. This seminar consists of 6 meetings and will be facilitated by Professor Datin Ruhani Ali and myself, Dr Effiezal Aswadi Abdul Wahab.

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Meeting 1 (9th January 2011)

Meeting 2 (23rd January 2011)

Facilitator: Effiezal Aswadi Abdul Wahab, PhD

Session 1 : Does Corporate Governance Matter?

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1. Bebchuk, L. A., & Weisbach, M. S. (2010). The State of Corporate Governance Research. Review of Financial Studies, 23(3), 939-961.

2. Bebchuk, L., Cohen, A., & Ferrell, A. (2009). What Matters in Corporate Governance? Review of Financial Studies, 22(2), 783-827.

3. Abdul Wahab , E. A., How, J., & Verhoeven, P. (2007). The Impact of the Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance: Compliance, Institutional Investors and Stock Performance. Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics, 3(2), 106-129.

4. Gompers, P. A., Ishii, J. L., & Metrick, A. (2003). Corporate Governance and Equity Prices. Quaterly Journal of Economics, 118(1), 107-155.

Session 2: Directors Network and Remuneration.

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1. Abdul Wahab , E. A., & Abdul Rahman, R. (2009). Institutional Investors and Directors’ Remuneration: Do Political Connections Matter? In K. J. Mark Hirschey, Anil K. Makhija (Ed.), Advances in Financial Economics (Vol. 13, pp. 139-169).

2. Sapp, S. G. (2008). The Impact of Corporate Governance on Executive Compensation. European Financial Management, 14(4), 710-746.

3. Barnea, A., & Guedj, I. (2009). Director Networks. SSRN eLibrary.

4. Dey, A., & Liu, X. (2010). Social Connections, Stock-Based Compensation and Director Oversight. SSRN eLibrary.