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We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large … that few types of private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic …) ownership improves some measures of performance relative to state ownership. Foreign investors engage in strategic restructuring …
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We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … or foreign private ownership, in either moderate or high ownership concentrations, leads to increased sales. However … relative to state-owned firms. Firms with dispersed ownership register higher positive effect on profit than firms with more …
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We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … ownership improves economic performance, but domestic private ownership does not, relative to state ownership. Foreign firms … increasing profit. Ownership concentration is associated with superior performance, thus providing support to the agency theory …
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ownership structure of 826 listed corporations and find that government shareholding is surprisingly large. Its effect on … shareholding stakes increase, but beyond this corporate value begins to increase. We interpret this in terms of ownership …
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This paper documents the ultimate shareholding structures of 826 corporations listed on China's stock market and finds large equity holdings of the government. Using a panel data set, this paper further finds that corporate value decreases with an increased size of government shareholding when...
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and exporting. In turn, the extent of managers’ independence is negatively associated with ownership concentration, but …
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three relevant firm attributes: investment opportunities, external financing, and ownership structure. Using firm …
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control for accompanying ownership changes and the fact that spinoffs and ownership are endogenous variables. We find that … on the resulting ownership structure – sometime improving performance and sometime bringing about decline that is … changes in ownership when analyzing spinoffs and generally to control for endogeneity, selection and data attrition when …
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Business groups in emerging markets perform better than unaffiliated firms. One explanation is that business groups substitute some functions of missing institutions, for example, enforcing contracts. We investigate this by setting up a model where firms within the business group are connected...
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This paper studies the relationship between the governance mechanisms and the market valuation of publicly listed firms in China empirically. We construct measures for corporate governance mechanisms and measures of market valuation for all publicly listed firms on the two stock markets in China...
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