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We develop a model of internal governance where the self-serving actions of top management are limited by the potential …, even without any external governance. Internal governance seems to work best when both top management and subordinates are …
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Recent work documents that better legal institutions are associated with broader equity markets. We investigate whether international differences in legal institutions also help explain the international cross-section of expected stock returns. We document three main regularities. First, total...
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utilities are large firms with professional management: there is a separation between ownership and control. The agency costs of …
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This Paper evaluates the primary mechanisms for changing management or obtaining control in publicly traded …
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organization under his management interacts with the replacement policy of the board of directors. We characterize the optimal …
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professional manager or leaving management to his heir, as well as on how much, if any, of the shares to float on the stock … intermediate protection, management is delegated to a professional, but the family stays on as large shareholders to monitor the … the family. This theory of separation of ownership from management includes the Anglo-Saxon and the Continental European …
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Voucher privatization programmes have been criticized for leading to excessively dispersed ownership and hence failure of control and insufficient corporate governance. We analyse the results of the five auction rounds of the Czech privatization programme and subsequent stock market...
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. We compare member firms of a group with a control set of large firms categorized by dispersed ownership or/and management …
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This Paper analyses the effects of dividend taxation on corporate behaviour using the large tax cut on individual …
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This Paper empirically investigates the decisions of US publicly traded firms on where to incorporate. We study the features of states that make them attractive to incorporating firms and the characteristics of firms that determine whether they incorporate in or out of their state of location....
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