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Voucher Privatization, Corporate Control and the Cost of Capital: An Analysis of the Czech Privatization Programme
Marcincin, Anton; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
Voucher privatization programmes have been criticized for leading to excessively dispersed ownership and hence failure … privatization programme and subsequent stock market developments. Contrary to prior fears, dominant investors did emerge in most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123768
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Equity Block Transfers in Transition Economies: Evidence from Poland
Trojanowski, Grzegorz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper investigates valuation effects of share block transfers and employs agency theory to explain the determinants of block premia. A sample of transactions from Poland is used to measure benefits and costs of ownership concentration. Block premia are found to be substantially lower than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124379
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Corporate Governance Externalities
Acharya, Viral V; Volpin, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We argue that the choice of corporate governance by a firm affects and is affected by the choice of governance by other firms. Firms with weaker governance give higher payoffs to their management to incentivize them. This forces firms with good governance to also pay their management more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136630
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Agency Conflicts, Ownership Concentration, and Legal Shareholder Protection
Burkart, Mike; Panunzi, Fausto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper analyses the interaction between legal shareholder protection, managerial incentives, and ownership concentration. In our framework, blockholder and manager are distinct parties and the presence of a blockholder can both protect and hurt minority shareholders. Legal shareholder...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662105
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The Structure of Corporate ownership in Privatized Utilities
Trillas, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
how deregulation affects corporate structure. In the benchmark case where the government maximizes privatization proceeds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123598
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The Political Economy of Finance
Pagano, Marco; Volpin, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
The regulations that shape the design and the operations of corporations, credit and securities markets differ vastly from country to country. In addition, similar regulations are often unequally enforced in different countries. Economists still have an imperfect understanding of why these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124338
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After Voucher Privatization: The Structure of Corporate Ownership in Russian Manufacturing Industry
Earle, John S; Estrin, Saul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This paper analyses the ownership structure emerging from the Russian privatization process, using information from a … privatization methods for ownership structure, on the incidence of non-voting and voting shares, and on the extent of concentration … examine the effects of ownership structure on enterprise performance, measured by labour productivity, several types of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136416
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Ownership and Corporate Control in Poland: Why State Firms Defied the Odds
Pinto, Brian; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
We present evidence of major adjustment efforts in the State sector in Poland well before privatization. Extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497734
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Fire the Manager to Improve Performance? Managerial Turnover and Incentives After Privatization in the Czech Republic
Fidrmuc, Jan; Fidrmuc, Jana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
performance after privatization in the Czech Republic. We find weak evidence for the presence of managerial incentives: only in … 1997, three to four years after privatization, does poor performance significantly increase the probability of managerial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792419
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Defensive and Strategic Restructuring in Central European Enterprises
Grosfeld, Irena; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
This paper interprets the existing evidence on enterprise restructuring in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Despite differences in restructuring policies, the pattern of observed restructuring appears similar in the three countries. Contrary to initial expectations, managers of SOEs have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662184