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Does Ownership Structure Influence Firm Value? Evidence from India

Kumar, Jayesh - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the effect of ownership structure on the firm performance for an unbalanced panel of 2478 Indian corporate firms from 1994 to 2000. We examine the effect of interactions between corporate, foreign, institutional, and managerial ownership on firm performance. Using panel data...

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Why Companies Go Private in Emerging Markets? Evidence from Poland

Kowalewski, Oskar; Jackowicz, Krzysztof - EconWPA - 2005

In recent years the number of going private transactions has sharply increased in emerging markets. The purpose of this study is to establish the financial characteristics of companies that have gone private using a dataset comprising of Polish companies. We use a probit model to distinguish the...

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Corporate Governance Mechanisms and Firm Financing in India

Kumar, Jayesh - EconWPA - 2005

This study investigates the firm financing patterns in India and the role of corporate governance mechanisms. We use … ownership of directors and corporate with the firm financing in India. Overall, the findings presented in the paper provide … evidence of definite role of corporate governance mechanisms in firm’s financing decisions in India. …

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Corporate Governance and Dividends Payout in India

Kumar, Jayesh - EconWPA - 2004

This paper investigates the association between the corporate governance and the dividends payout policy for a panel of Indian corporate firms over the period 1994-2000. We explain the differences in the dividend payout behavior of the firms with the help of firm’s financial structure,...

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Development of Ownership Structure and its Effect on Performance: Czech Firms from Mass Privatization

Kocenda, Evzen - EconWPA - 2002

This paper works with a broad data sample of Czech voucher-privatized firms during 1996 - 1999. It analyzes the development of ownership structure and consequently its effect on a firm's performance Ownership concentration had been quite high in 1996 and steadily increased. The single largest...

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Golden parachutes: Credible commitments or evidence of shirking?

Falaschetti, Dino - EconWPA - 2003

External agents are frequently characterized as necessary for efficiency in team production settings. At the same time, these agents must be constrained from opportunistically exercising their enforcement capabilities. I argue that collective action costs and formal institutions (e.g., golden...

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Birth Spacing and Child Survival: Comparative Evidence from India and Pakistan

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the two-way relationship between birth interval and child survival and compares the behaviour of households in the Indian and Pakistani provinces of Punjab. Birth interval and child survival are modelled here as correlated hazard processes, allowing for mother- specific...

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After the "License Raj": Economic Liberalization and Aggregate Private Investment in India

Emran, M. Shahe; Alam, M. Imam; Shilpi, Forhad - EconWPA - 2003

theoretically consistent manner, this paper presents evidence on the effects of economic liberalization of 1991 in India. Two robust …

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Labor Conflict and Foreign Investments: An Analysis of FDI in India

Menon, Nidhiya; Sanyal, Paroma - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes patterns of foreign direct investment in India. We investigate how labor conflict, credit … decisions and labor unrest simultaneously. Results indicate that labor unrest is endogenous across the states of India, and has …

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Sustainability of Services-Led Growth: An Input Output Exploration of the Indian Economy

Hansda, Sanjay - EconWPA - 2005

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