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Port Efficiency, Maritime Transport Costs and Bilateral Trade
Clark, Ximena; Dollar, David; Micco, Alejandro - 2021
determinant of shipping costs. Improving port efficiency from the 25th to the 75th percentile reduces shipping costs by 12 percent … explain variations in port efficiency and find that they are linked to excessive regulation, the prevalence of organized crime …
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New Measures of Port Efficiency Using International Trade Data
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Wilson, Wesley W. - 2021
that allows one to compare port efficiency measures of any kind across ports and, especially, over time. This paper … provides a new statistical method of uncovering port efficiency measures using U.S. Census data on imports into U.S. ports … evolution of port efficiencies over time and its effects on international trade flows and country-level growth …
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Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution : Evidence from Ports
Gillingham, Kenneth; Huang, Pei - 2023
groups. We exploit quasi-random variation in vessels in port from weather events far out in the ocean to estimate how port … traffic influences air pollution and human health. We find that one additional vessel in a port over a year leads to 3 ….0 hospital visits per thousand Black residents within 25 miles of the port and only 1.0 per thousand for whites. We assess a port …
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How to Auction an Essential Facility When Underhand Integration is Possible
Engel, Eduardo M. R. A.; Galetovic, Alexander; Fischer, … - 2021
There are many industries in which potentially competitive segments require services provided by natural monopoly bottlenecks (essential facilities). Since it is difficult to regulate these facilities, developing countries are using Demsetz auctions, where the facility is awarded to the firm...
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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction
Steier, Lloyd - 2013
This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies underscore the importance of path dependence, often as...
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Corporate Governance, Economic Entrenchment and Growth
Morck, Randall - 2013
Around the world, large corporations usually have controlling owners, who are usually very wealthy families. Outside the U.S. and the U.K., pyramidal control structures, cross shareholding and super voting rights are common. Using these devices, a family can control corporations without making a...
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Alternative Mechanisms for Corporate Control
Morck, Randall - 2013
We examine performance and management characteristics of Fortune 500 firms experiencing one of three types of control change: internally precipitated management turnover, hostile takeover, and friendly takeover. We find that firms experiencing internally precipitated management turnover perform...
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Corporate Governance and the Home Bias
Pinkowitz, Lee - 2012
In most countries, many of the largest corporations are controlled by large shareholders. We show that, under reasonable assumptions, this stylized fact implies that portfolio holdings of U.S. investors should exhibit a home bias in equilibrium. We construct an estimate of the world portfolio of...
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Wall Street's First Corporate Governance Crisis : The Panic of 1826
Hilt, Eric - 2010
In July of 1826, several prominent Wall Street firms abruptly went bankrupt, amid scandalous revelations of fraudulent financial practices by their management. Although mostly forgotten today, these events represented a watershed in the early development of the corporation laws and investor...
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Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?
Giroud, Xavier - 2010
By reducing the threat of a hostile takeover, business combination (BC) laws weaken corporate governance and increase the opportunity for managerial slack. Consistent with the notion that competition mitigates managerial slack, we find that while firms in non-competitive industries experience a...
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