This paper analyses ownership and control structures of Dutch listed companies. Legislation effective since 1992 … that the average ownership stakes of the largest and the three largest shareholders are 27% and 41%, respectively. The … average ownership stakes of banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions are relatively low. We observe that …

The paper analyses the ownership structure of a large sample of Spanish listed companies. The results are analysed in … terms of governance implications under the agency theory context. The results show a picture with concentrated ownership … where stock markets are relatively low important. Direct ownership and voting blocks, which account for indirect ownership …

various factors such as quantity and price effect, technical change, efficiency change, resource mix, product mix and scale … improvements in efficiency gains. The input price and scale effect had a significant negative impact on profit changes. This …

, aggregation, and weighting. Nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods, originating in the production economics … weighting techniques by focusing on a measure of best-case relative performance. Recently, the standard DEA model for composite … analogue of standard DEA for composite indicators and show how it leads to tractable optimization problems. Finally, we compare …

The paper presents estimation of the health losses from urban air pollution in Ukraine. The methodology developed by US … computed concentrations of PM2.5, the study was based on monitoring data of total suspended particle (TSP) emissions in Ukraine … total, air pollution related mortality represents about 6 percent of total mortality in Ukraine. In Russia the corresponding …

. Constraining choices increases segregation and affects the stability and efficiency of the final allocation. Remarkably, the …