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Corporate governance and corporate social performance: The influence of boards, ownership and institutions
Desender, Kurt A.; Epure, Mircea - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2013
We systematically analyze how variations in board independence and ownership concentration and type affect corporate social performance (CSP). Drawing from the agency and stakeholder perspectives, we argue that recognizing differences in the distribution of costs and benefits to shareholders and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186264
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Stakeholder activism, managerial entrenchment and the congruence of interests between shareholders and stakeholders
Cespa, Giovanni; Cestone, Giacinta - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002
We argue that when stakeholder protection is left to the voluntary initiative of managers, concessions to social activists and pressure groups can turn into a self-entrenchment strategy for incumbent CEOs. Stakeholders other than shareholders thus benefit from corporate governance rules putting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572585
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On commercial media bias
Germano, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
Within the spokes model of Chen and Riordan (2007) that allows for non-localized competition among arbitrary numbers of media outlets, we quantify the effect of concentration of ownership on quality and bias of media content. A main result shows that too few commercial outlets, or better, too...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005708016
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Missing girls in Spain
Luna, Libertad González - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2014
I document extremely son-biased sex ratios at birth among Asian-born parents in Spain. Using data on the universe of … registered births in Spain during 2007- 2012, I show that there are 117 boys per 100 girls born to Indian parents, compared with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849594
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Control of the costs of quality management: A review or current practice in Spain
Amat, Oriol; Blake, John - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248454
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Risk sharing with the monarch: Excusable defaults and contingent debt in the age of Philip II, 1556-1598
Drelichman, Maurizio; Voth, Joachim - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
history. Philip II of Spain entered into hundreds of contracts whose value and due date depended on verifiable, exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321254
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Transition probabilities and duration analysis among disability states: Some evidence from Spanish data
Casasnovas, Guillem López i; Nicodemo, Catia - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012
first. Finally the trend of disability in Spain seems not to change among years and regional differences are not found. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553344
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La imposición de los carburantes de automoción en España: algunas observaciones teóricas y empíricas
Villot, Xavier Labandeira; Nicolás, Ángel López - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002
This article deals with the taxation of private car fuels in Spain, analyzing its theoretical foundations and carrying … evaluate and assess the effects of the new Spanish tax on car fuel sales and of the application in Spain of the EU directive on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704840
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El impacto de los servicios sanitarios sobre la salud
Ortún, Vicente; Meneu, Ricard; Peiró, Salvador - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004
from the U.S and, more limited, from Spain. Health services contribution to health has been positive in average, especially … during the last 50 years for the U.S and the last 30 years for Spain. This contribution differs among countries and is much ….000 euros per Quality Adjusted Life Year could provide an efficiency threshold for financing publicly health services in Spain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704842
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Regulatory ambivalence and the limitations of pharmaceutical policy in Spain
Costa, Joan; Puig, Jaume - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004
Broadly speaking, pharmaceutical policy in Spain has been unable to control either the price or the volume of drugs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704844