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CEO turnover, firm performance and enterprise reform in China : evidence from new micro data

Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2006

Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China's securities regulatory agency appears to be … literature on economic transition, our findings suggest that any fundamental improvement in China's corporate governance will …

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Control rights in public-private partnerships

Francesconi, Marco (contributor); … - 2006

This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...

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Long-run effects of public-private research joint ventures : the case of the Danish innovation consortia support scheme

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kuhn, Johan Moritz - 2011

Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly popular in Europe and the US. We study the long-run effects of such a support scheme that has been maintained by the Danish government since 1995. To cope with identification...

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The effect of Fe y Alegria on school achievement : exploiting a school lottery selection as a natural experiment

Lavado, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; Yamada, Gustavo; … - 2016

Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...

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Public funding and corporate innovation

Beck, Mathias; Junge, Martin; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2017

We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...

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Investor protection and the value of shares : evidence from statutory rules governing variations of shareholders’ class rights in Russia

Muravyev, Alexander - 2009

This paper uses a quasi-experimental framework provided by recent changes in Russian corporate law to study the effect of investor protection on the value of shares. The legal change analyzed involves the empowerment of preferred (non-voting) shareholders to veto unfavorable changes in their...

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The value relevance of top executive departures : evidence from the Netherlands

Cools, Cornelis (contributor); Praag, Mirjam van (contributor) - 2007

On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...

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Predictability of asset returns and the efficient market hypothesis

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2010

This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...

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Produce or speculate? : asset bubbles, occupational choice and efficiency

Cahuc, Pierre; Challe, Edouard - 2009

We study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading requires specialized intermediaries and where agents freely choose between working in the production or in the financial sector. Frictions in the market for deposits create...

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Exponent of cross-sectional dependence : estimation and inference

Bailey, Natalia; Kapetanios, George; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012

An important issue in the analysis of cross-sectional dependence which has received renewed interest in the past few years is the need for a better understanding of the extent and nature of such cross dependencies. In this paper we focus on measures of cross-sectional dependence and how such...

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