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Diagnosing discrimination: stock returns and CEO gender
Wolfers, Justin - 2006
, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability of female managers. Disentangling these theories would require … data on productivity, on the preferences of those who interact with managers, and on perceptions of productivity. Financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269221
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Should employment authorities worry about mergers and acquisitions?
Margolis, David N. - 2006
. Second, it examines which individuals from which firms remain with the newly created entity after the takeover. Using a … active in the post-takeover period, with employees of the acquired firm being less likely to remain with the new entity in … the short term after takeover than those of the acquiring firm and with the differences between the two types of firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267376
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Firm performance and managerial turnover: the case of Ukraine
Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Bilyk, Olga; … - 2009
ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271280
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CEO and board characteristics as determinants of private benefits of control: Evidence from the Russian stock exchange
Berezinets, Irina; Ilina, Yulia; Muravyev, Alexander - 2011
This paper investigates whether and how various characteristics of CEOs and corporate boards are related to the severity of corporate governance problems within firms. The latter is proxied by private benefits of control, which we measure for dual class stock firms using the voting premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282260
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Ownership and Pay in Britain
Pendleton, Andrew; Bryson, Alex; Gospel, Howard - 2015
Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is linked to ownership dispersion. Using linked workplace-worker data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2011, we find average hourly pay is higher in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307427
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Financial constraints and innovation: why poor countries don't catch up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269463
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Mafias and Firms
Arellano-Bover, Jaime; De Simoni, Marco; Guiso, Luigi; … - 2024
Infiltration of the legal economy by criminal organizations (OCGs) is potentially significant, though how pervasive remains uncertain. Beyond the volume, the motives driving infiltration are of serious policy concern. We introduce a conceptual framework to differentiate between OCGs' motives for...
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Regulation and Firm Value: Curious Case of Transparency and Disclosure Laws in Russia
Banerjee, Suman; Masulis, Ronald; Pal, Sarmistha - 2016
financial statements are not used for tax purposes, made it possible for managers of domestically-listed firms to inflate pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479408
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Corporate Disclosure, Compliance and Consequences: Evidence from Russia
Banerjee, Suman; Estrin, Saul; Pal, Sarmistha - 2022
Does the introduction of corporate transparency and disclosure rules in emerging economies affect compliance, and therefore earnings quality and firm performance? We explore these questions for an important emerging economy, Russia, using a natural experiment, the 2002 introduction of Russian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177744
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Gender Diversity, Labour in the Boardroom and Gender Quotas
Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022
This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470454