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Rakesh Yadav

2014

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How Independent (Outside) Directors’ Compensation Structure, Their Frequency Of Meetings And Concentrated Ownership Effects Shareholder’S Wealth? Evidence From Indian Traded Companies, Rakesh Yadav Jan 2014

How Independent (Outside) Directors’ Compensation Structure, Their Frequency Of Meetings And Concentrated Ownership Effects Shareholder’S Wealth? Evidence From Indian Traded Companies, Rakesh Yadav

Rakesh Yadav

Corporate Governance advocates have strongly encouraged firms to include proper structure in independent directors’ compensation to help align directors’ interested with that of corporate stockholders. While the argument in favor of structure based director compensation is intuitively appealing, there is very little evidence of the efficacy of structure based director compensation .Regulators in India through Clause -49(equivalent to Sarbanes –Oxley act of U.S.A) of stock exchange listing agreement on other side wish to increase market stability and efficiency through new reforms in compensation without examining the impact of ownership structure on the shareholder’s wealth. In an effort to determine the …