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The paper aims at outlining the existing gaps in Bulgarian corporate governance compared to the standards and the state of corporate governance in developed market economies. The current state of corporate governance, the degree of ownership concentration as well as the strengths and weaknesses...
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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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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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consistent with tunneling (looting) by managers or (partial) owners. The effects of privatization are hence much less clear …
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conflicting and some other time imperative to the process of transaction. This article attempts to highlight a consistent …
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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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institutional investors and managers affect firm performance non- linearly, after controlling for observed firm characteristics and …
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This paper analyses the evolution of ownership and control in German and UK IPOs. In a first stage we try to explain why the pre-IPO shareholders of some firms sell out whereas those of other firms do not. German IPOs are matched by size with UK IPOs to obtain a first sample and matched by...
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firm-level time series data of nearly 2000 listed companies from 1994 through 2000, to analyze the firm’s corporate …
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