results suggest that "old boys' club" ownership structures are a major impediment to the empowerment of female talent in …

describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … significant effect of private ownership share on the level and growth of labor productivity, the estimates ranging from 13 to 32 …

This paper examines ethnic disparities in the transition to home ownership using longitudinal register data from the … conditions. Subsequently, the size of explained variance in the home ownership gap between Dutch and ethnic minority groups is … estimated using the Oaxaca-Fairlie non-linear decomposition method. The analysis indicates that the home ownership gap is the …

those with sole ownership perceive greater benefits from higher economic freedom. However as claimed above, older firms …

shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to the votes on shareholder … efficiency and market value. …

experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe … possibility of gossip is highly efficiency-increasing compared to a situation without any gossip. In two further control … treatments, we show that the mere fact of being observed by third parties cannot explain the efficiency-increasing effect of …

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …