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We show that industrial ownership structures, such as keiretsu groupings in Japan, may significantly impact firms …
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This paper develops a model of informal procurement within Japanese keiretsu so as to consider effects on intermediate-good imports, such as auto parts. Parts-suppliers make relationship-specific investments that benefit the auto-maker and prices are determined by bargaining after investment has...
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paper investigates whether bank ties in Japan were costly for mature and healthy firms in the 1980's and 1990's, and whether …
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This paper reviews the literature on corporate groups in Japan and elsewhere, and offers a comparison of Japan … groups in Japan since the mid-1970s. The main conclusions that emerge are that: 1. Empirical evidence on the economic roles … of corporate groups in Japan is limited. 2. Japanese groups are, in some respects, quite similar to groups in other …
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We investigate the motives and consequences of the consolidation of banks in Japan during the period of fiscal year …
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Business groups often contain banks or near banks that can protect group firms from economic shocks. A group bank subordinate to other group firms can become an "organ bank" that selflessly bails out distressed group firms and anticipates a government bailout. A group bank subordinating other...
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shifted production to unregulated firms in the same conglomerate instead of improving their energy efficiency. Conglomerate …
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In this paper, we examine the proposition that both the structures of conglomerate firms and their merger activities …
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In lower-income economies, stocks exhibit less idiosyncratic volatility and business groups are more prevalent. This study connects these two findings by showing that business group affiliated firms' stock returns exhibit less idiosyncratic volatility than do the returns of otherwise similar...
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In this paper we study the determinants of business groups' ownership structure using unique panel data on Korean chaebols. In particular, we attempt to understand how pyramids form over time. We find that chaebols grow vertically (that is, pyramidally) as the family uses well-established group...
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