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The rapid growth in index funds and significant consolidation in the asset-management industry over the past few decades has led to higher levels of common ownership and increased attention on the topic by academic researchers. A consensus has yet to emerge from the literature regarding the...
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steel, power and infrastructure sectors and most of the lending was to about 50 major borrowers. This paper details the …
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This study examines how family firm characteristics affect capital structure decisions. In our analysis we disentangle the influence of three distinct components of a family firm: ownership, supervisory and management board activities by the founding family. Thereby, we use a unique panel...
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account for endogeneity concerns. Overall, our findings support the view that shareholders consider the adoption of a value …
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is a former executive of the firm. In sum, our evidence is consistent with the view that shareholders use stock …
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Around the world (with the U.S. and U.K. as exceptions) concentrated ownership structures and controlling shareholders … are predominant even among listed firms. We provide novel empirical evidence how such controlling shareholders, in … family and non-family controlling shareholders and tensions within the founding family are important determinants of payout …
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shareholder, in particular family shareholders, PE invest in firms which exhibit the potential to align manager …
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Recent research indicates that the majority of listed firms in Germany (and also in many other countries around the world) have a dominant owner rather than being widely-held. Hence, owner-dominated firms comprise an important subset of listed companies. This article introduces the concept of an...
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This study examines the impact of creditor rights on cash holdings using a sample of firms from 48 countries. We argue that creditor rights affect the willingness of lenders to provide credit, which in turn affects the need for internal liquidity and cash holdings. Consistent with this, we find...
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We find that the location of corporate headquarters significantly affects the firm’s bondholders. Similar to Loughran and Schultz (2006) and others, who show that investors are better able to obtain information on nearby companies, we look at firms located in large metropolitan cities, small...
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