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Firms' global engagement and management practices
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2017
related to the change in their management performance. We use new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of … management practices in Germany. We calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013), which indicate how … structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates …
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Constraints on large-block shareholders
Holderness, Clifford G.; Sheehan, Dennis P. - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000679938
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Complementarities in corporate governance : ownership concentration, capital structure, monitoring and pecuniary incentives
Heinrich, Ralph P. - 2000
monitor management are attenuated because monitoring shifts some of the firm's risk from management to owners. This …
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A theory of firm scope
Hart, Oliver D.; Holmström, Bengt - 2008
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Voting rights, share concentration, and leverage at nineteenth-century US banks
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2012
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Liquidity management of US global banks : internal capital markets in the Great Recession
Cetorelli, Nicola; Goldberg, Linda S. - 2011
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Are the seeds of bad governance sown in good times?
Schoar, Antoinette; Washington, Ebonya - 2011
following good firm performance or a desire to reward management for good past performance. Overall our evidence seems more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151863
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Bank governance, regulation, and risk taking
Laeven, Luc; Levine, Ross - 2008
"This paper conducts the first empirical assessment of theories concerning relationships among risk taking by banks, their ownership structures, and national bank regulations. We focus on conflicts between bank managers and owners over risk, and show that bank risk taking varies positively with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003735671
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Managerial ownership dynamics and firm value
Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger; Stulz, René M. - 2007
From 1988 to 2003, the average change in managerial ownership is significantly negative every year for American firms. The probability of large decreases in ownership is strongly increasing in contemporaneous and past stock returns but the probability of large increases in ownership through...
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When did ownership separate from control? : Corporate governance in the early nineteenth century
Hilt, Eric - 2007
This paper analyzes the ownership and governance of the business corporations of New York State in the 1820s. Using a new dataset collected from the manuscript records of New York's 1823 capital tax, and from the charters of the corporations, I analyze the ownership structures of the firms, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003464330