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Corporate Control Around the World
Aminadav, Gur - 2017
We provide an autopsy of the patterns of corporate control and ownership concentration in a dataset covering more than 40,000 listed firms from 127 countries over 2004−2012. Employing a plethora of original and secondary sources, big data techniques, and applying the Shapley-Shubik algorithm...
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Contractibility and Asset Ownership : On-Board Computers and Governance in U.S. Trucking
Baker, George P.; Hubbard, Thomas N. - 2021
We investigate how the contractibility of actions affecting the value of an asset affects asset ownership. We examine this by testing how on-board computer (OBC) adoption affects truck ownership. We develop and test the proposition that adoption should lead to less ownership by drivers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228614
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Universal Banking and the Performance of German Firms
Gorton, Gary B. - 2011
investment, and for contesting corporate governance. In Germany, where the stock market has historically been small, banks hold …
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Class Struggle Inside the Firm : A Study of German Codetermination
Gorton, Gary B. - 2010
the unification of East Germany and West Germany, a shock that may have caused employees in the former West to resist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763280
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How Do CEOS See Their Role? Management Philosophy and Styles in Family and Non-Family Firms
Mullins, William - 2014
Using a survey of 800 CEOs in 22 emerging economies we show that CEOs' management styles and philosophy vary with the control rights and involvement of the owning family and founder: CEOs of firms with greater family involvement have more hierarchical management, and feel more accountable to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063090
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History of American Corporate Governance : Law, Institutions, and Politics
Hilt, Eric - 2014
This paper presents an overview of the history of corporate governance in the United States, emphasizing the period before the advent of federal securities laws and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Recent research has overturned many widely accepted beliefs about corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049687
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Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States Before the Great Depression
Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent - 2022
Legal records indicate that conflicts of interest -- that is, situations in which officers and directors were in a position to benefit themselves at the expense of minority shareholders -- were endemic to corporations in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century U.S. Yet investors...
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Top Executives, Turnover and Firm Performance in Germany
Kaplan, Steven N. - 2021
performance in the largest companies in Germany in the 1980s. The management board turns over slowly -- at a rate of 10% per year … -- implying that top executives in Germany have longer tenures than their counterparts in the U.S. and Japan. Turnover of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218102
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A Head-to-Head Comparison of Augmented Wealth in Germany and the United States
Boenke, Timm - 2017
and pension wealth – for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between … Germany, augmented wealth (US$651,000) is only 1.4 times higher. Further, the inclusion of pension wealth in household wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960706
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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R. - 2016
preferences by implementing parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979764