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Institutional Ownership and the Returns on Investment

Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Eklund, Johan; Wiberg, Daniel - Ratioinstitutet - 2008

performance. To measure investment performance Mueller and Reardon’s (1993) marginal q is used, although derived directly from … both domestic and foreign institutional owners positively influence firm performance. Furthermore a non-linear relation … between institutional ownership concentration and performance is found. This is consistent with positive incentive effects and …

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Institutional Ownership and Returns on Investment

Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Eklund, Johan; Wiberg, Daniel - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

investment performance we used a measure of marginal q which measures the ratio of the investment returns to cost of capital …. Institutional owners are found to have had a positive effect on performance, with a marginally diminishing effect of institutional … performance, eradicating the positive influence of institutional ownership. …

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The impact of entrepreneurship education in high school on long - term entrepreneurial performance

Elert, Niklas; Andersson, Fredrik; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

entry, performance, and survival. Using propensity score matching, we compare three Swedish cohorts from Junior Achievement …

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Family Control and Executive Compensation

Palmberg, Johanna - Ratioinstitutet - 2012

performance are positively related to CEO compensation. …

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The Performance Effects of Corporate Board of Directors

Palmberg, Johanna - Ratioinstitutet - 2012

This paper examines the relationship between the board-member independence, family control, and financial performance … dominates the board of director. Board-member independency is found positively affect a firm's financial performance. The …, families, and employees does not have any impact on the firm investment performance. The results are important in the …

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When is Gibrat's Law a Law?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

The purpose of this paper is to investigate if the industry context matters for whether Gibrat's law is rejected or not using a dataset that consists of all limited firms in 5-digit NACE-industries in Sweden during 1998-2004. The results reject Gibrat's law on an aggregate level, since small...

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The Economic Contribution of High-Growth Firms: Do Definitions Matter?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

Prior studies have defined high-growth firms (HGFs) in terms of sales or employment, and analyzed their contribution to employment growth. We define HGFs by employment and sales and add definitions of value added and productivity. We examine the contribution of HGFs to employment growth,...

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Ownership and High-Growth Firms

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Johansson, Dan - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

Empirical studies demonstrate that most net job-growth originates from a small number of high-growth firms (HGFs). The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether firm ownership – family, or private non-family – matters for being a HGF, using data covering all firms in Sweden during...

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Family Business, Employment, and GDP

Johansson, Dan; Sjögren, Hans; Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - Ratioinstitutet - 2009

We analyze the proportion of family business and its contribution to employment and gross domestic product (GDP). Our analysis adds to the literature by including all listed firms and by investigating a longer period than has heretofore been reported. The main contribution is to extend the...

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Gazelles as Job Creators – A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - Ratioinstitutet - 2008

It is often claimed that small and young firms account for a disproportionately large share of net employment growth. We conduct a meta analysis of the empirical evidence regarding whether net employment growth rather is generated by a few rapidly growing firms – so-called Gazelles – that...

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