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Foreign ownership and firm survival : first evidence for enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Weche Gelübcke, John Philipp - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities and...

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Tournaments and managerial incentives in China's listed firms : new evidence

Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2008

an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …

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Corporate governance of Chinese privatized firms : evidence from a survey of non-listed enterprises

Zhong, Ninghua - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 43 (2015) 4, pp. 1101-1121

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Investment liberalisation, technology take-off and export market entry : does foreign ownership structure matter?

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2015

Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …

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Government expropriation and Chinese-style firm diversification

Du, Julan; Lu, Yi; Tao, Zhigang - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 43 (2015) 1, pp. 155-169

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Privatization and productivity in Romanian industry : evidence from a comprehensive enterprise panel

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...

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Does local business ownership insulate cities from economic shocks?

Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David - 2009

We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses - namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...

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Do institutions, ownership, exporting and competition explain firm performance? : Evidence from 26 transition countries

Commander, Simon (contributor); Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007

"We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm's top manager's perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy measures...

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Post-privatization corporate governance and firm performance : the role of private ownership concentration, identity and board composition

Omran, Mohammed - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 37 (2009) 4, pp. 658-673

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Ownership or performance : what determines board of directors' turnover in Italy?

Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - 2000

This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...

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