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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262532
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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566810
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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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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs : Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?
Tian, Lihui; Estrin, Saul - 2005
The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China?s newly privatized large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both harm and benefit companies. We examine the ownership structure of 826 listed corporations and find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262209
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Family Ownership, Workplace Closure and the Recession
Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Gulbrandsen, Trygve - 2016
Using nationally representative Norwegian data we show family-owned workplaces are less likely to close than observationally similar non-family-owned workplaces. But this changed during the Crisis when the family businesses' closure hazard soared. This hike in 2009 was not related to performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479395
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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?
Tian, Lihui; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China’s newly privatized large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both harm and benefit companies. We examine the ownership structure of 826 listed corporations and find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822452
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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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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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Female-Led Firms: Performance and Risk Attitudes
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329169
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The Gender Composition of Corporate Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from Russia
Garanina, Tatiana; Muravyev, Alexander - 2019
This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059087