Essays on Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance

Although corporate governance is difficult to measure, when dealing with it we are referring to aspects such as independence, size or gender diversity of the board of directors,

Motivated by the importance that diversity currently has in companies, we examine the effect that board diversity has on corporate governance performance in Spain,

 The expansionary monetary policy measures have had a negative impact on net interest margins both via the reduction in interest rates and –less powerfully- the flattening of the

In Table 8, column 4, we substitute the total number of committees with the number of advisory committees in the outcome regression, and we use a dummy that takes the

As in the main results, there is an initial negative impact on development on the year immediately after the flood event, which becomes larger in the following years, reaching

In contrast, the influence of other independent variables (institutional and foreign ownership) and their interactions with board independence have experienced

The results provide some interesting evidences, such as the distribution of equity ownership among corporate managers and external block holders has a significant relationship

En este sentido, los estudios realizados a nivel internacional han coincidido en señalar que cuando los consejos de administración tienen una mayor independencia y eficacia