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Endogenous ownership structure : factors affecting the post-privatisation equity in largest Hungarian firms
Bishop, Kate; Filatotchev, Igor; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2002
Using a data set for 162 largest Hungarian firms during the period of 1994-1999 this paper explores the determinants of equity shares held by both foreign investors and by Hungarian corporations. We find evidence of a post-privatisation evolution towards more homogeneous equity structures, where...
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The impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment : first evidence from April 2020 CPS microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225449
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Minority student and teaching assistant interactions in STEM
Oliver, Daniel; Fairlie, Robert W.; Millhauser, Glenn; … - 2021
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Monitoring the governance of state-owned enterprises : assessing the impact of corporate governance reforms in Brazil
Coelho, Daphne; Teodorovicz, Thomaz; Fritscher, André … - 2024
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are often justified for correcting market failures, providing essential public services, and fulfilling social objectives. Yet, SOEs face unique governance challenges as agency conflicts usually increase with state ownership. This paper examines Brazil's efforts to...
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The private sector advances in China : the evolving ownership structures of the largest companies in the Xi Jinping era
Huang, Tianlei; Véron, Nicolas - 2022
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 on Fortune Global 500 rankings), and...
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Long term changes in voting power and control structure following the unification of dual class shares
Lauterbach, Beni; Yāfe, Yišay - 2009
We follow the evolution of ownership structure in a sample of 80 Israeli companies that unified their dual-class shares in the 1990s, and compare it with a control sample of firms that maintained their dual share structure at least until 2000. Our main findings are as follows. First, controlling...
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New Zealand corporate boards in transition : composition, activity and incentives between 1995 and 2010
Boyle, Glenn W.; Ji, Xu Jane - 2011
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Disentangling the effect of private and public cash flows on firm value
Scherrer, Cristina Mabel; Fernandes, Marcelo - 2016
This paper presents a simple model for dual-class stock shares, in which common shareholders receive both public and private cash flows (i.e. dividends and any private benefit of holding voting rights) and preferred shareholders only receive public cash flows (i.e. dividends). The dual-class...
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The government as a large shareholder : impact on firm value and corporate governance
Fernandes, Marcelo; Novaes, Walter - 2015
firms in Brazil to show that government activism lowers the value of minority shareholders' voting rights. While the … corporate governance literature usually associates lower voting premia with stronger protection of minority shareholders, we … provide evidence that the government-induced decline in the value of voting rights harmed minority shareholders in Brazil. …
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Ownership concentration, monitoring and optimal board structure
Graziano, Clara (contributor);  … - 2005
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