Machine learning methods in finance: Recent applications and prospects

D Hoang, K Wiegratz - European Financial Management, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We study how researchers can apply machine learning (ML) methods in finance. We first
establish that the two major categories of ML (supervised and unsupervised learning) …

Governing cybersecurity from the boardroom: challenges, drivers, and ways ahead

M Gale, I Bongiovanni, S Slapnicar - Computers & Security, 2022 - Elsevier
Overall, the responsibility to oversee cyber-risk management in modern organisations lies
with Boards of Directors. However, evidence suggests that boards are not nearly as …

Board governance of strategic change: An assessment of the literature and avenues for future research

P Klarner, Q Yu, T Yoshikawa… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Boards of directors play a central role in governing corporate strategic change. We
systematically review corporate governance research on strategic change published over …

Women directors and E&S performance: Evidence from board gender quotas

E Ginglinger, C Raskopf - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2023 - Elsevier
Using the natural experiment created by France's 2011 board gender quota law, we find that
the presence of women on boards increases firms' environmental and social (E&S) …

[HTML][HTML] Board sub-committee effectiveness, director attraction and director attrition: do nomination and remuneration committees matter?

S Kanapathippillai, P Puwanenthiren, D Mihret… - Pacific-Basin Finance …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study examines whether the effectiveness of board subcommittees is associated with
director attrition and the attraction of new directors to boards. Using a sample of firms listed …

Earnings quality and board meeting frequency

N Vafeas, A Vlittis - Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2024 - Springer
We propose that corporate directors are in greater need of soft information about the firm
when the quality of hard accounting information is low. We further propose that board …

Overlap** membership between risk management committee and audit committee and bank risk-taking: Evidence from China

BY Ding, F Wei - International Review of Financial Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
Although overlap** membership between risk management committee and audit
committee is prevalent in banks' boards, the existing literature focuses on the impact of a …

Corporate governance mechanisms and renewable energy transition

M Makpotche, K Bouslah, BB M'Zali - Corporate Governance: The …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The intensity of carbon emissions has led to the serious problem of global warming,
and the consequences in terms of climatic disasters are gaining increasing attention …

Busy directors and shareholder satisfaction

KD Chen, WR Guay - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020 - cambridge.org
Prior research has examined the firm-level performance implications of “busy” boards. Firm-
level analysis, however, masks important heterogeneity in the time constraints and expertise …

Inference for regression with variables generated from unstructured data

L Battaglia, T Christensen, S Hansen, S Sacher - 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
The leading strategy for analyzing unstructured data uses two steps. First, latent variables of
economic interest are estimated with an upstream information retrieval model. Second, the …