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

Wagner, Joachim; Weche Gelübcke, John Philipp - 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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Ownership or performance : what determines board of directors' turnover in Italy?

Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - 2000

This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...

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Family ownership, workplace closure and the recession

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Gulbrandsen, Trygve - 2016

Using nationally representative Norwegian data we show family-owned workplaces are less likely to close than observationally similar non-family-owned workplaces. But this changed during the Crisis when the family businesses' closure hazard soared. This hike in 2009 was not related to performance...

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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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Boards of directors in Russian publicly traded companies in 1998-2014 : structure, dynamics and performance effects

Muravyev, Alexander - 2016

This paper provides new evidence on the structure, dynamics and performance effects of corporate boards in publicly traded companies in Russia. It takes advantage of a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded in the RTS/MICEX/MOEX over...

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