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State-owned enterprise governance : a stocktaking of reforms and challenges in Southern Africa

Balbuena, Sara S. - 2014

This report is the first known stocktaking of its kind to provide a regional overview of state-owned enterprise (SOE) governance reforms and challenges across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Part One summarises the challenges and governance practices related to...

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State-invested enterprises in the global marketplace : implications for a level playing field

Christiansen, Hans; Kim, Yunhee - 2014

State-owned and other state-invested enterprises (SIEs) have become more prominent in the global economy over the last decade. A growing role for state-invested enterprises in the marketplace is not in itself onerous. According to an OECD consensus, as expressed through the Organisation’s...

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Stocktaking of anti-corruption and business integrity measures for Southern African SOEs

Crane-Charef, Mary - 2015

This report aims to provide an overview of business integrity and anti-bribery legislation, policies and practices applicable to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) operating across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Part 1 provides a rationale for considering the impact that...

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Sultan Balbuena, Sara - 2016

The rise in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as growing actors in international trade and investment has received renewed attention in recent years, not least due to controversy that has arisen over SOE foreign investments. This has raised the profile of these issues with policy makers and tilted...

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Fund ownership and stock price informativeness of Chinese listed firms

Ding, Rong; Hou, Wenxuan; Kuo, Jing-Ming; Lee, Edward - In: Journal of Multinational Financial Management 23 (2013) 3, pp. 166-185

We examine the impact of mutual fund ownership on stock price informativeness in China. Existing evidence shows that … stock price informativeness is low in China, and attributes this to firms’ lack of disclosure incentives under the weak … mutual funds in China can also be moderated by state ownership of listed firms, which reduces firms’ dependence on outside …

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State-owned enterprises : trade effects and policy implications

Kowalski, Przemyslaw; Büge, Max; Sztajerowska, Monika; … - 2013

With a growing integration via trade and investment, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that have traditionally been oriented towards domestic markets increasingly compete with private firms in the global market place. Three principal questions emerge from the international trade perspective: (1)...

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Externalities of public firm presence : evidence from private firms' investment decisions

Badertscher, Brad; Shroff, Nemit; White, Halbert - 2013

Public firms provide a large amount of information through their disclosures. In addition, information intermediaries publicly analyze, discuss and disseminate these disclosures. Thus, greater public firm presence in an industry should reduce uncertainty in that industry. Following the...

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International trade and investment by state enterprises

Kowalski, Przemyslaw; Perepechay, Kateryna - 2015

The recent surge in competition between state and private firms in global markets calls for a reflection on how to minimise any potentially distortionary effects on international trade and investment created by state enterprises while at the same time restraining any undue protectionist policy...

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Bringing together international trade and investment perspectives on state enterprises

Kowalski, Przemyslaw; Rabaioli, Daniel - 2017

State enterprises (SEs) have been increasingly competing with private firms in international markets, in terms of both cross-border trade and FDI. Given both the potentially positive contribution internationally trading and investing SEs can make, as well as the concerns raised about their...

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Colombian SOEs : a review against the OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-owned Enterprises

Lehuedé, Héctor - 2013

This report evaluates the corporate governance practices of Colombian SOEs against the OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). The assessment was prepared based on information provided by the Colombian authorities, an analysis of the available literature and...

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