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Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Domadenik, Polona; Prašnikar, Janez; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our model predicts that underdeveloped democratic institutions that do not punish political corruption...

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Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance

Cuñat, Vicente; Giné, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP); a policy that increases shareholder "voice" by providing shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to the votes on shareholder-sponsored SoP proposals. Adopting SoP leads to large increases...

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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?

Tian, Lihui; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China’s newly privatized large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both harm and benefit companies. We examine the ownership structure of 826 listed corporations and find...

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Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover: The Case of Ukraine

Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Bilyk, Olga; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to their performance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds statistically significant negative association between the past performance of firms measured by...

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Ownership or Performance: What Determines Board of Directors' Turnover in Italy?

Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...

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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler

Goolsbee, Austan D.; Krueger, Alan B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....

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Risk, Delegation, and Project Scope

Roider, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

exogenous risk and delegation. That is, we show that only if exogenous risk is sufficiently large, the risk-neutral principal … may prefer to delegate authority over decisions to the risk-averse agent. Intuitively, for incentive reasons, the … principal may optimally want to allow the agent to reduce his risk exposure. Nevertheless, even endogenous risk may be higher …

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What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone’s hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000 and it is again in the spotlight since the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2009. Based on unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest...

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Social Networks in the Boardroom

Kramarz, Francis; Thesmar, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper provides empirical evidence consistent with the facts that (1) social networks may strongly affect board composition and (2) social networks may be detrimental to corporate governance. Our empirical investigation relies on a unique dataset on executives and outside directors of...

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Rhineland Exit?

Bovenberg, Lans; Teulings, Coen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

of firm-specific risks. Whereas globalisation has increased firm-specific risk by intensifying competition, globalisation … of capital markets has also greatly increased the scope for diversification of firm-specific risk. Diversification of … this risk on the capital market is an efficient form of social insurance. Reducing the claims of workers on the surplus of …

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