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Ownership concentration and firm performance: Evidence from an emerging market
Grosfeld, Irena - HAL - 2006
The initial view of the advantages of ownership concentration in joint stock companies was determined by the concern about the opportunistic managerial behavior. The growing importance of knowledge and human capital in the operation of firms shifts the focus of concern: excessive ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738833
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Large shareholders and firm value: Are high-tech firms different?
Grosfeld, Irena - HAL - 2009
This paper explores the relationship between ownership structure and firm value in a transition economy. It distinguishes firms belonging to the sector of innovative technologies and firms from more "traditional" industries. For the latter, the results of the estimation of a simultaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738964
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Disclosure and minority expropriation: A study of French listed firms
Chiraz, Ben Ali - HAL - 2009
In this paper we examine the influence of minority expropriation on disclosure level in France where shareholders are poorly protected and the main agency problem is the one between controlling and minority shareholders (type II conflict) while prior studies have been undertaken in the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793309
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Board structure, Ownership structure, and Firm performance : Evidence from Banking
Belkhir, Mohamed - HAL - 2006
This paper examines the interrelations among five ownership and board characteristics in a sample of 260 bank and savings-and-loan holding companies. These governance characteristics, designed to reduce agency problems between shareholders and managers, are insider ownership, blockholder...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794749
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Neoclassical vs Evolutionary Theories of Financial Constraints : Critique and Prospectus
Coad, Alex - HAL - 2007
Complicated neoclassical models predict that if investment is sensitive to current financial performance, this is a …, refers to the principle of "growth of the fitter" to explain investment-cash flow sensitivities as the workings of a healthy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750396
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Structural Modelling of Financial Constraints on Investment: Where Do We Stand?
Chatelain, Jean-Bernard - HAL - 2003
This paper surveys issues with respect to the structural modelling of econometric tests of investment facing financial … is to provide conditions which support the interpretation of the sensitivity of investment to liquidity variables such as … cash flow as a measure of financial constraints. The structural modelling of investment facing financial constraints is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750831
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Towards an Understanding of the Phases of Goodwill Accounting in Four Western Capitalist Countries: From Stakeholder Model to Shareholder Model
Ding, Yuan; Richard, Jacques; Stolowy, Hervé - HAL - 2008
The objective of this paper is to illustrate that the change in shareholders' attitude towards firms (from stakeholder model to shareholder model) influences the accounting treatments of goodwill. Our study is based on four countries (Great Britain, the United States, Germany, and France) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151311
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La RSE comme instrument de la gouvernance d'entreprise
Cézanne, Cécile; Rubinstein, Marianne - HAL - 2010
Après avoir mis en évidence les problèmes de gouvernance posés par la " nouvelle firme ", désintégrée verticalement et intensive en capital humain, nous avançons que la responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise (RSE) peut servir à réguler les rapports de force entre les partenaires...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323659
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What do we know about delistings? A survey of the literature
Djama, Constant; Martinez, Isabelle; Serve, Stéphanie - HAL - 2012
Relative to the decision to go public, the decision to delist is less studied in the corporate finance literature despite its importance in the life of the firm. This article surveys the recent literature, both theoretical and empirical, regarding delisting in an international context...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736419
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Taxes on severance pay, corporate governance and golden handshakes
Llense, Fabienne - HAL - 2009
This paper puts forward an explanation of the rapid increase in golden handshake provision in Europe over the last ten years, based on both enhanced investor protection and attractive tax codes for severance pay. This article takes up a framework in which asymmetric information about the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738557