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Tournaments and managerial incentives in China's listed firms : new evidence

Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2008

The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has … an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 …

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Ownership and pay in Britain

Pendleton, Andrew; Bryson, Alex; Gospel, Howard F. - 2015

Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is linked to ownership dispersion. Using linked workplace-worker data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2011, we find average hourly pay is higher in...

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Privatization and productivity in Romanian industry : evidence from a comprehensive enterprise panel

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...

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Managerial performance of a female-owned and home-based firm

Oladipo, Oluwasheyi S.; Platt, Katarzyna; Shim, Hyoung Suk - 2020

Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the differences come from, and how to mitigate them. This...

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Do big inequalities in executive pay hurt firm performance?

Chung, Richard; DeVaro, Jed; Fung, Scott - 2024

Research Question/Issue: Do large, within-firm executive pay differences hurt firm performance? Prior literature shows mixed results concerning the sign of the relationship between executive pay disparity and firm performance. This study evaluates that literature, clarifies what tournament...

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Financing, ownership, and performance : a novel, longitudinal firm-level database

Brown, J. David; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - 2024

The Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) underpins many studies of firm-level behavior. It tracks longitudinally all employers in the nonfarm private sector but lacks information about business financing and owner characteristics. We address this shortcoming by linking LBD...

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Does local business ownership insulate cities from economic shocks?

Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David - 2009

We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses - namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...

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Evaluating the effect of ownership status on hospital quality : the key role of innovative procedures

Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - 2012

Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...

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Foreign ownership and firm survival : first evidence for enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Weche, John P. - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities and...

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Do institutions, ownership, exporting and competition explain firm performance? : Evidence from 26 transition countries

Commander, Simon (contributor); Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007

"We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm's top manager's perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy measures...

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