performance. Concentrated private ownership has a stronger positive effect on performance than dispersed ownership in the post … collective ownership does not have a negative effect. In the post-communist economies new firms are equally or more efficient … tunneling and in some countries new large shareholders artificially decreased performance. The important policy implication is …

"Ownership and control over assets such as land and housing provide direct and indirect benefits to individuals and … the gender dimensions of asset ownership. This paper sets out a framework for researchers who are interested in collecting … data on individual level asset ownership and analyzing the gender asset gap. It reviews best practices in existing surveys …

of Serbia to examine the relationship between productivity, the investment climate, and private ownership of firms. As …. Identification of the relative effects of various investment climate constraints and ownership on productivity should serve as a … guide for such prioritization. Although ownership has recently received less attention in policy decisions than before …

The level of shareholders' expertise and experience needs to be questioned as they wield greater clout and become more … deeply involved in strategic issues that should be the board's purview. This misdirected involvement distracts shareholders … from their principal and most important role: electing and overseeing boards. To play that role, shareholders must have the …