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Streb, Jorge M.; Torrens, Gustavo - 2015

is seen as a set of conventional signs that point to types, and the credibility of a message depends on the strategic …

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Vote buying or campaign promises? : electoral strategies when party credibility is limited

Hanusch, Marek; Keefer, Philip; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2016

promises, and explores the distributional consequences of this decision, in a setting where party credibility can vary. When … campaign promises. When political credibility is sufficiently low, some voter groups are targeted only with vote buying and not …

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Effects of protected areas on forest cover change and local communities : evidence from the Peruvian Amazon

Miranda, Juan José; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - 2014

Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether 'win-win'...

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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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Postprivatization corporate governance : the role of ownership structure and investor protection

Boubakri, Narjess; Cosset, Jean-Claude; Guedhami, Omrane - 2003

We investigate the role of ownership structure and investor protection in postprivatization corporate governance. We find that the government relinquishes control over time, mainly to the benefit of local institutions and foreign investors. We also show that private ownership tends to...

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Corporate governance in newly privatised Russian enterprises : a field study

Bergström, Lars - 1994

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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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The emergence of large shareholders in mass privatized firms : evidence from Poland and the Czech Republic

Grosfeld, Irena; Hoshi, Iraj - 2004

Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the … extent of change is unusual for a stable market economy. Focusing on two different mass privatization schemes in two …

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Reluctant privatization

Bortolotti, Bernardo; Faccio, Mara - 2004

through 2000. We find that governments do not relinquish control after privatization. We show that the market-to-book ratios …

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Institutions and forest management : a case study from Swat, Pakistan

Kruseman, Gideon <jr.> (contributor); … - 2008

Deforestation in the North western part of Pakistan is a long standing problem. The Forestry Department, as formal … process has not resulted in less deforestation. From the policy perspective this has been leading to stated intentions to … statutory law. In this article we explore the mechanisms behind the deforestation and try to uncover mechanisms to reverse the …

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