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The Specter of the Giant Three
Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2019
This paper examines the large, steady, and continuing growth of the Big Three index fund managers--BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street Global Advisors. We show that there is a real prospect that index funds will continue to grow, and that voting in most significant public companies will come...
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Lazy Prices
Cohen, Lauren - 2018
Using the complete history of regular quarterly and annual filings by U.S. corporations from 1995-2014, we show that when firms make an active change in their reporting practices, this conveys an important signal about future firm operations. Changes to the language and construction of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480735
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Top Executives, Turnover and Firm Performance in Germany
Kaplan, Steven N. - 1993
This paper examines executive turnover -- both for management and supervisory boards - - and its relation to firm performance in the largest companies in Germany in the 1980s. The management board turns over slowly -- at a rate of 10% per year -- implying that top executives in Germany have...
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Is the U.S. public corporation in trouble?
Kahle, Kathleen - 2016
We examine the current state of the U.S. public corporation and how it has evolved over the last 40 years. After falling by 50 percent since its peak in 1997, the number of public corporations is now smaller than 40 years ago. These corporations are now much larger and over the last twenty years...
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Why Does Idiosyncratic Risk Increase with Market Risk?
Bartram, Söhnke M. - 2016
From 1963 through 2015, idiosyncratic risk (IR) is high when market risk (MR) is high. We show that the positive relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across exchanges, firm size, liquidity, and market-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the...
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China's Local Comparative Advantage
Harrigan, James - 2008
China's trade pattern is influenced not just by its overall comparative advantage in labor intensive goods but also by … geography. We use two variants of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model to study China's local comparative advantage. The theory … predicts that China's share of export markets should grow most rapidly where China's share is initially large. A corollary is …
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Contractual Versus Generic Outsourcing : The Role of Proximity
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005
We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions. Proximity expands the variety of products sourced through...
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Share Pledging in China : Funding Listed Firms or Funding Entrepreneurship?
He, Zhiguo; Liu, Bibo; Zhu, Feifei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies the connection between share pledging and entrepreneurial activities in China, challenging the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938700
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Price Discovery and Market Segmentation in China's Credit Market
Geng, Zhe - 2019
information content of credit spreads in China. Using Merton's model of default, we construct credit measures of publicly listed … 2014, do credit spreads in China become informative. Compared with the findings in the US credit market, the magnitude of … state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China results in a market segmentation between SOE and non-SOE issuers that is harmful to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480519
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Picking Winners? Government Subsidies and Firm Productivity in China
Branstetter, Lee; Li, Guangwei; Ren, Mengjia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
subsidies provided to China's publicly traded firms. We categorize subsidies into different types. We then estimate total … suggest that China's increasingly prescriptive industrial policies may have generated limited effects in promoting …
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