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We provide a theory of how growth, corruption, and a low-powered public-sector pay scale coexist in a stable … equilibrium in the early stage of China's development. The regionally decentralized authoritarian regime of China features lower …-powered public-sector pay scale in China. We propose a principal-agent model, where the principal represents the Chinese people …
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This paper documents recent structural changes in China's corporate landscape, based on company level data, providing a … complementary perspective to that of official Chinese statistics. We classify China's largest companies by revenue since 2004 (based …
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Even though it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) following divestiture, it is argued that the existing literature suffers from a misspecification measure because it does not consider the performance of control firms...
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We analyze the impact of a 75 pct. Break-Through rule on 1,035 European firms with dual class shares. In 3-5 pct. of the firms the controlling owners incur a direct loss of control, whereas in additional 11-17 pct. of the firms the controlling owners are likely to incur a control loss. Firms in...
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Recent policy initiatives within the harmonization of European company laws have promoted a so-called "principle of proportionality" through proposals that regulate mechanisms opposing a proportional distribution of ownership and control. We scrutinize the foundation for these initiatives by...
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The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is … clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign … is crucial because it sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China …
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both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China's energy pricing reform since 1984 has been moving … reforms for coal, petroleum products, natural gas, electricity and renewable power in China, and provides some analysis of … these energy price reforms, in order to have the market to play a decisive role in allocating resources and help China …
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