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Corporate governance in Greece: developments and policy implications

Spanos, Loukas - EconWPA - 2005

The upgrading of the Greek capital market and the effort to join other mature capital markets has posed corporate governance reform as a first priority. In addition, the 2004 Olympic Games put the Greek market in the international spotlight and will likely invite interest from foreign investors....

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Transferring Rhineland Capitalism to the Polish-German Border: Perceptions of Bank Governance and Practice in Zgorzelec-Görlitz

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Locke, Robert; Müller, Kristine - EconWPA - 2005

-Central Europe, we focus – using a survey questionnaire – on bank customers perceptions of bank governance and practice in the Polish …-German city of Zgorzelec-Görlitz. The experience of Dresdner Bank is stressed as is the fact that the local people not long before … opposed to Anglo-American approaches to management in the context of retail bank markets. …

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Federal state shareholdings in Russian companies: Origin, forms and consequences for enterprise perfomance

Muravyev, Alexander - EconWPA - 2003

This paper studies the impact of federal state shareholdings on the performance of Russian companies. It differs from most similar studies in two respects. Firstly, it focuses on mixed ownership companies rather than conventional state enterprises. Secondly, it distinguishes between several...

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What’s Common to Relationship Banking and Relationship Investing? Reflections within the Contractual Theory of the Firm

Neuberger, Doris - EconWPA - 2005

The financial systems in continental Europe are moving from bank intermediation to intermediation by non-bank …

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Multiple bank lending relationships in Italy: their determinants and the role of firms’ governance features

Vulpes, Giuseppe - EconWPA - 2005

The aim of this paper is to analyze the determinants of multiple-bank lending - one of the main features of the bank …-firm relationships in Italy. The analysis suggests that multiple bank lending is significantly and importantly linked with firms … characterised by a greater level of multiple-bank lending. In this respect multiple-bank lending may be the consequence of a risk …

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What’s Common to Relationship Banking and Relationship Investing? Reflections within the Contractual Theory of the Firm

Neuberger, Doris - EconWPA - 2005

. Banks traditionally holding close relationships with firms are substituted by non-bank institutional investors. The present …

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Common Structures of Asset-Backed Securities and Their Risks

Sabarwal, Tarun - EconWPA - 2005

In recent years, one area of growing concern in corporate governance is the accounting and transfer of risk using special purpose entities (or trusts). Such entities are used widely in issuing asset-backed securities. This paper provides an overview of the asset-backed securities market, and...

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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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The Transfer of Control in British and German IPOs

Goergen, Marc - EconWPA - 1998

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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What’s Common to Relationship Banking and Relationship Investing? Reflections within the Contractual Theory of the Firm

Neuberger, Doris - EconWPA - 2005

. Banks traditionally holding close relationships with firms are substituted by non-bank institutional investors. The present …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134829