of foreign block ownership, at a broad set of publicly traded corporations. Disclosed institutional blockholders of every …This short technical report provides an empirical analysis of the level of institutional block ownership overall, and … company in the Standard & Poor's 500 index are analyzed, and the distribution of blockholders is presented. Blockholders are …

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of blockholders (large shareholders) in … corporate governance. We start with the underlying property rights of public corporations; we discuss how blockholders are … critical in addressing free-rider problems and why, like owners of private property in general, blockholders are likely to be …

This paper analyses ownership and control structures of Dutch listed companies. Legislation effective since 1992 … that the average ownership stakes of the largest and the three largest shareholders are 27% and 41%, respectively. The … average ownership stakes of banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions are relatively low. We observe that …

equity owned firms. Among public companies, purpose is lower for firms with high hedge fund ownership and higher for firms …

reforms in India, the results of our empirical analysis provide evidence of strong ownership effects with board independence …

This chapter documents the evolution of ownership and control of firms around the world over a hundred year period from … stock markets and contrasts these with the persistent patterns of ownership that are observed in many countries around the … world. In particular, it documents the growth in dispersion in ownership that took place in many countries from the early …

Purpose The ownership structure in Japanese firms has experienced a significant change recently, fueled primarily by … ownership on the default risk of Japanese firms. Design/methodology/approach We collected data from the Nikkei Corporate … using alternative estimation techniques. Findings Results show a significant positive influence of insider ownership on …

CEMs to measure the divergence between control and ownership rights. Supporting the rent extraction hypothesis, holding … business group companies have lower dividend payouts as the divergence between control and ownership rights widens and the …