“…Also, following past studies (Conyon, ; Core et al ., ; Lee et al ., ; Jones and Wu, ; Lin et al ., ), we include a number of CG and financial variables as controls, including the number of board meetings ( NBMs ), director ownership ( DOWN ), director ownership squared ( DOWN 2 ) (to test for non‐linear relationships), the presence of an independent RCOM , CEO role duality ( DUAL ), firm size ( LNTA ), audit firm size ( BIG4 ), cross‐listing ( CROSLIST ), dividend payment status ( DIV ), sales growth ( SGR ), capital expenditure ( CAPX ), industry ( INDUST ) and year ( YD ) dummies. Table contains full definitions of all the variables used.…”