Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5092926 | Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics | 2013 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
This paper examines the role of compensation and risk committees in managing and monitoring the risk behaviour of Australian financial firms in the period leading up to the global financial crisis (2006-2008). This empirical study of 711 observations of financial sector firms demonstrates how the coordination of risk management and compensation committees reduces information asymmetry. The study shows that the composition of the risk and compensation committees is positively associated with risk, which, in turn, is associated with firm performance. More importantly, information asymmetry is reduced when a director is a member of both the risk and compensation committees which moderate the negative association between risk and firm performance for firms with high risk.
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Authors
Ngoc Bich Tao, Marion Hutchinson,