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constraints, measured by the sensitivity of investment to cash flow. We develop two original corporate governance indices based on … standard investment regressions where the cash flow variable is interacted with our corporate governance indices and variables … of investment, particularly in firms with an outside controlling owner and in firms with low managerial ownership. In …
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of companies for the period 2011 – 2015, divided into subsamples before and after the events in Ukraine. Specifically … from the sample had the top officials of Russia as directors, and 43% of corporations were found to be politically … value effect of political connections strengthened after the events in Ukraine …
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large Russian investment company which is controlled and managed by the founder. We observe that, contrary to expectations …
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While different researchers agree that the acquisition of Russian nominal cases proceeds somewhat sequentially, there is no consensus about the exact order of case acquisition in the literature on L1 acquisition (see Ceitlin, 2000; Gvozdev, 1981, 2007; Gagarina & Voeikova, 2009). Besides, accumulated...
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We test the ability of boards of directors to eliminate the negative impact of CEO behavior on payout policy. We contribute to the literature by testing the ability of boards to influence CEO payout propensity. First, we show that if the compensation scheme of a CEO does not stimulate him or her...
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mitigate the risks of debt holders. Only state and insider ownership matter in Russia: the larger the government stake, the …
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development of corporate governance and vice versa.In recent years, Russia and most continental countries (Germany, France, Italy … tools for countering abuses by dominant shareholders.It is widely discussed among legal professionals in Russia that there …
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We propose a model in which an entrepreneur, seeking outside financing, sells a large equity share to an outside blockholder in order to signal his low propensity to extract private benefits. A conventional theoretical rationale for the presence of an outside blockholder is mitigation of the...
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After the financial crisis, the necessity to support large inefficient banks had a crucial impact on a number of economies in Europe. This paper focuses on the effect that corporate governance mechanisms has on performance for commercial banks operating in developed and emerging European...
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We examine the effect of shareholder coalitions on the corporate payout policy in Spain, a context characterized by the presence of dominant shareholders. Our results show that shareholder coalitions affect payout policy negatively (both for dividends and shares repurchases). This finding...
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