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were designed to promote a disperse ownership and give managers a high level of discretion in running the company. By this … managers, and the threat of a takeover was not a credible one, since the government kept a golden share. There is no overall … evidence of capture of politicians and regulators by managers in the interest of shareholders, although evidence suggests the …
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study is based on empirical investigation through semi-structured interviews administered to the managers of multinational …
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This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that the 1960s conglomerates were inefficient. I offer valuation results consistent with recent event-study evidence that markets typically rewarded diversifying acquisitions. Using new data, I compute industry-adjusted valuation, profitability,...
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This paper analyses the evolution of Corporate Governance (CG) mechanisms and organizational changes of the Hellenic Telecommunication Organization (HTO) and has two objectives: to enrich the debate and to contribute to the increasing body of literature by examining and analyzing the...
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analyzed from this perspective. Government bond regulation is argued to necessarily depart from ordinary approaches also … discusses repo and short-selling regulation in government bond markets. The atypical market structure and the multi- agency … competition, integrative infrastructure and basic systemic protections as over-arching principles for regulation is consistent …
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wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of …
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An obvious answer to this question is the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis originally proposed by Zwi Griliches (1969). But the relatively poor performance of this hypothesis suggests that other explanations are needed. Here we consider the labour union behaviour in the wage bargaining...
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to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover … status or a smaller network, then that group's drop-out rate will be higher and their employment prospects and wages will be …
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The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...
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This study uses Social Security earnings records matched to recent cross-sections of the SIPP and CPS to study the earnings progress of U.S. immigrants.The data show that immigrants' earnings grow 10 to 13 percent during their first twenty years in the U.S. relative to the earnings of natives...
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