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Did the Arab Spring reduce MENA countries' growth?
Araissi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir - 2019
This paper examines the economic ramifications of the recent political reconfigurations that the MENA region witnessed, commonly known as the Arab Spring, utilizing MENA countries data during period 2005-2016. Using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel estimation, the paper estimates a growth model...
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How successful are banking sector reforms in emerging market economies? : evidence from impact of monetary policy on levels and structures of firm debt in India
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Kutan, Ali Mustafa; Majumdar, Sudipa - 2016
success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument … that well-functioning credit markets would reflect a bank channel for monetary policy at work, we test whether a change in … and the associated change in interest rate does not affect change in bank credit, change in total debt and the proportion …
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Legal corruption, politically connected corporate governance and firm performance
Domadenik, Polona; Prašnikar, Janez; Švejnar, Jan - 2014
In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our model predicts that underdeveloped democratic institutions that do not punish political corruption...
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Voice at work
Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...
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The gender pay gap in the CEOs' labor market
Tani, Massimiliano; Valentine, Andrew; Sharpe, Kieran - 2022
We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past three decades across 18 countries. We find that male and female CEOs receive a similar compensation overall but this masks marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely,...
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CEO stress, aging, and death
Borgschulte, Mark; Guenzel, Marius; Liu, Canyao; … - 2023
We assess the long-term effects of managerial stress on aging and mortality. First, we show that exposure to industry distress shocks during the Great Recession produces visible signs of aging in CEOs. Applying neural-network based machine-learning techniques to pre- and post-distress pictures,...
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Internal promotion or external hire? : staffing management positions when employees have a seat in the boardroom
Gregorič, Aleksandra; Kato, Takao; Larsen, Casper Berg … - 2024
We join the scholarly conversation on the implications of the different configurations of firms' stakeholder coalitions for their employment practices, by investigating how the structural arrangements granting employees a role in firm boards of directors (employee governance representation, EGR)...
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The effects of board gender quotas : a meta-analysis
De Acutis, Costanza; Weber, Andrea; Wurm, Elisabeth - 2024
We use a meta-analysis to summarize the recent literature evaluating effects of the introduction of gender quotas on company boards. We collect data from 51 studies on policies implemented in 11 countries from which we extract 496 estimates. The literature considers the effects of quota policies...
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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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Worker directors : a German product that didn't export?
Addison, John T. (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2009
Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the empirical evidence on the effects of the institution, tracing...
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