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Using cross-sectional analysis of corporate dividend policy we show that large shareholders extract rents from firms and expropriate minority shareholders in the weak corporate governance environment of an emerging economy. By comparing dividends paid across varying corporate ownership struc-...
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We present a model of efficient contracting with endogenous matching and limited monitoring in which firms compete for … CEOs. The model explains the association between limited monitoring and CEO pay practices such as pay-for-luck, high … matching equilibrium: firms with different capacities for monitoring hire different types of CEOs and offer different …
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monitoring devices and piece-rates. We find that firms that offer seniority-based pay are less likely to offer explicit … incentives. They are also less likely to invest in monitoring devices. We also find that firms that offer seniority-based pay are …
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firms and banks are subject to moral hazard and monitoring is essential. Multiple-bank lending is optimal whenever the … benefit of greater diversification in terms of higher monitoring dominates the costs of free-riding and duplication of efforts … less profitable, and poor financial integration, regulation and inefficient judicial systems increase monitoring costs …
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This paper shows how separation of ownership and control may arise as a response to overload costs, despite agency costs, and how conglomerates arise as solution to information asymmetries in capital markets. In a context where entrepreneurs have the ability to run projects and improve their...
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When a firm has external debt and monitoring by shareholders is essential, managerial bonuses are shown to be an … shareholders, but also between creditors and monitoring shareholders. A negative relation between corporate bond yields and …
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capital. Particularly, we analyse such incentives and monitoring under employee ownership and capitalist ownership. In our … show that the workers’ investment and expected income are higher and the monitoring intensity is lower in an employee …’s reservation wage decreases, as the monitoring cost or as the productivity uncertainty increases. Most of our results are …
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countries over the years 1998–2005, the authors explore whether monitoring for compliance with corporate codes of conduct … its suppliers, monitoring alone appears to have produced only limited results. However, when monitoring efforts were …
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In this paper, we show that ownership structures vary considerably across Europe, and that the dominant form of ownership is not necessarily the most efficient one. These findings are in contradiction to similar research based on US samples. The results also demonstrate that firms without a...
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This paper analyzes differences in R&D spending and in the impact of R&D on productivity between German and UK firms. We confirm that German firms spend significantly larger amounts on R&D than their UK counterparts, even after controlling for firm size and industry effects. Using a dynamic...
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