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Political Connections, State Ownership and Productivity in China
Harris, Richard I. D. - 2017
Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian-type model of growth with managerial time allocation between productive activities and building up political connections. The model predicts the impact of different patterns of state...
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The Effect of Corporate Taxation and Ownership on Raising Shareholder Capital
Krämer, Robert - 2013
We analyze how interactions between corporate taxation and corporate governance affect shareholder capital. Using a model with strategic interaction between managers and outside shareholders, we hypothesize that, while an increase in the corporate tax rate decreases shareholder capital, an...
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Stock Market Returns, Corporate Governance and Capital Market Equilibrium
Parigi, Bruno Maria; Pelizzon, Loriana; von Thadden, … - 2021
This paper proposes a theoretical model that incorporates corporate governance into the basic CAPM, where corporate governance affects the disutility of managerial effort and the possibility of managers to divert company resources. It shows that corporate governance affects firms’ stock...
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Ownership and Control in a Competitive Industry
Karle, Heiko; Klein, Tobias J.; Stahl, Konrad O. - 2021
We study a differentiated product market in which an investor initially owns a controlling stake in one of two competing firms and may acquire a non-controlling or a controlling stake in a competitor, either directly using her own assets, or indirectly via the controlled firm. While industry...
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Globalization and the (Mis)Governance of Nations
Blouin, Arthur - 2013
We analyze whether or not the globalization of capital, ‘disciplines' governments and improves governance. We … demonstrate that globalization affects governance, by increasing a country's vulnerability to sudden capital flight. This … ‘golden straitjacket'. However, globalization may also ‘overdiscipline' governments - resulting in a perverse impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091699
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Government Decentralization and International Government Performance
Goel, Rajeev K. - 2016
Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual responses from more than a hundred countries about public's perceptions of government's performance along various dimensions to study the relative influences of different types of...
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Central Bank Boards Around the World : Why Does Membership Size Differ?
Berger, Helge - 2013
This paper analyzes empirically differences in the size of central bank boards across countries. Defining a board as the body that changes monetary instruments to achieve a specified target, we discuss the possible determinants of a board's size. The empirical relevance of these factors is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754018
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Budget Institutions and Government Effectiveness
Dahan, Momi - 2017
Do budget institutions play a role in explaining why government effectiveness is higher in some advanced countries than in others? Employing an original panel dataset that spans four different years (1991, 2003, 2007 and 2012) we find that budget centralization has a negative and significant...
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Investor Protection and Foreign Stakeholders
Giofré, Maela - 2014
Different investor classes are endowed with different rights, and conflicting interests among them can make protections afforded to one party detrimental to another. Indeed, we find that investor protection laws have sizeable "cross" effects on foreign portfolio investment and the direction of...
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World Market Access of Emerging-Market Firms : The Role of Foreign Ownership and Access to External Finance
Raff, Horst - 2013
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign …
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