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Does the legal form matter for firm performance in the MENA Region?

Ahmad, Issam Abdo; Fakih, Ali - 2021

This paper attempts to study the relationship between firm legal form and firm performance in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) using the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) database. Our analysis shows that open shareholding, closed shareholding, partnership, and limited...

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and corporate governance in China : evidence from firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges

Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2005

This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive compensation and ownership structure, we find for...

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and chaebols in Korea : evidence from new panel data

Kato, Takao (contributor); Kim, U-chʾan (contributor); … - 2005

This paper provides the first rigorous econometric estimates on the pay-performance relations for executives of Korean firms with and without Chaebol affiliation. To do so, we have assembled for the first time panel data (that provide information not only on executive compensation and firm...

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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel : design and research potential

Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009

So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the … ; panel data ; Germany …

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Employee health and firm performance

Rettl, Daniel A.; Schandlbauer, Alexander; Trandafir, Mircea - 2022

When workers are in bad health, their productivity declines. We investigate whether the health of employees affects firm performance, taking advantage of the severity of the seasonal influenza seasons as a source of exogenous variation. We find that firms whose employees are particularly...

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The market for CEOs: building legacy and feeling empowered matter

Dupuy, Arnaud; Kennes, John; Lyng, Ran Sun - 2021

We develop a two-sided multidimensional matching model of the market for CEOs that allows for both pecuniary and non-pecuniary (amenity) compensation. The model is estimated by maximum likelihood estimation using matched CEO-firm data from Denmark. We show that CEOs have preferences for building...

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Bringing connections onboard: the value of political influence

Green, Colin; Homroy, Swarnodeep - 2020

In 2002, an amendment to UK parliamentary regulations removed restrictions on the participation of members of parliament (MPs) in parliamentary proceedings related to their corporate interests. Using this amendment as a quasi-natural experiment, we demonstrate gains in firm value and...

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More than the money : payoff-irrelevant terms in relational contracts

Goerg, Sebastian J.; Ziółkowska, Monika - 2018

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S and apply system GMM in order to solve … compensation in both countries. The impact of foreign competition on pay-performance sensitivity differs between the US and Germany …

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Worker directors : a German product that didn't export?

Addison, John T. (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2009

representation ; firm performance ; Germany …

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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 … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany. -- foreign ownership ; firm survival ; Germany …

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