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mitigating agency problems between managers and shareholders.We find that both the CEO's industry-adjusted monetary compensation …
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German firms pay out a lower proportion of their cash flows than UK and US firms.However, on a published profits basis, the pattern is reversed.Company law provisions and accounting policies account for these conflicting results.A partial adjustment model is used to estimate the implicit target...
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. Listed firms in the Netherlands have a long tradition of employing many anti-shareholder mechanisms limiting shareholders …
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Traditionally share price returns and their variance have been explained by factors linked to the operations of the company such as systematic risk, corporate size and P/E ratios or by factors related to the influence of the macro-economic environment. In these models, the institutional...
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This study investigates the impact of corporate governance and product market competition on total factor productivity growth for two large samples of German and UK firms. In poorly performing UK firms, the presence of strong outside blockholders lead to substantial increases in productivity....
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This paper analyses the control of Belgian listed companies. The analysis reveals that control of listed companies in Belgium is highly concentrated. Business groups, holding companies, and voting pacts, play an important role in bringing about this concentration. The main characteristics of the...
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This study has analysed the share price reactions to changes in top management.A distinction was made among different …. Subsequently, a more detailed classification of the change of top management was made based on the background of the successor (an …, there is evidence that forced turnover is facilitated.It also seems that it is easier to remove management in smaller …
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by the vast majority of Dutch listed firms.Once accounting for these, we find no evidence that strong shareholders would … allow firms to relax their dividend policy, as has been proposed in the existing literature.As shareholders, institutional … investors and managers actually force higher payouts.Thus, it seems that dividends often complement rather than substitute …
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