**Meet the editor**

Professor Paolo Saona holds a Doctorate degree in Corporate Finance from Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. Dr. Saona is currently the professor of finance at the Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business, Saint Louis University at its Madrid campus, Spain, and a fellow researcher at Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Chile. He has visited different faculties in different universities

and presented his scholarly works in more than ten countries. His current research interests focus on assessing the efficiency of firm- and country-level corporate governance systems and their impact on the firm value. He also does research in the field of international corporate finance, banking industry and financial systems. Prof. Saona has authored and coauthored over 30 publications in international refereed journals, such as the *Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy*, *International Review of Economics & Finance*, *Applied Economics*, *International Review of Law and Economics*, *Review of Managerial Science*, *Emerging Markets Finance and Trade*, *Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting*, among many other academic outlets.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Ravi Lonkani

Chapter 1 **Firm Value 3**

**Section 1 Firm Value: An Introduction 1**

Dharmendra Singh

Jung Hee Noh

**Governance 73**

**Developments 97**

**Firm Value 115** Silvije Orsag

**Securities Market, Oman 21**

**Value: Evidence from Korea 53**

Chapter 5 **Can Corporate Social Responsibility Fill Institutional Voids? 75**

Chapter 2 **Stock Price Determinants: Empirical Evidence from Muscat**

Tolosa Leticia Eva and Nicolas María Claudia

Chapter 3 **Effect of Free Float Ratio on the Behavior of Shares Valuation in Companies Listed in Latin American Capital Market 33**

Chapter 4 **Ask of National Pension Service for Higher Dividend and Firm**

**Section 2 Firm Value: Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate**

Chapter 6 **Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Value: Recent**

Chapter 7 **Public Company Communications with Equity Investors and**

Fan-chin Kung and Nicholas G. Rupp

Swee-Sum Lam, Weina Zhang and Christopher Yuen Kwong Chien
