The pressures to accommodate to the global standards of corporate governance (CG) for Japanese public companies had grown strong since the mid-1990s. A series of legal reforms has led to the formal imitation of the market oriented Anglo-American model which, however, was not accompanied by the...

The pressures to accommodate to the global standards of corporate governance (CG) for Japanese public companies had grown strong since the mid-1990s. A series of legal reforms has led to the formal imitation of the market oriented Anglo-American model which, however, was not accompanied by the...

The actors of economy and politics all over the world have long debated about the effect private equity investments make on economy. The debate focuses on the effect of a narrow group of private equity investments, namely, Leveraged Buyouts (LBO), while nobody questions the positive impact of...

The paper presents the results of two surveys on how ownership structure and corporate governance affect corporate performance. The analyses focus on the question whether the differences among the performances of firms can be attributed to the various types of ownership structures and corporate...

The paper presents the results of two surveys on how ownership structure and corporate governance affect corporate performance. The analyses focus on the question whether the differences among the performances of firms can be attributed to the various types of ownership structures and corporate...

Analyses of the Hungarian employment situation are almost always concerned only with the change in the number of the employed, unemployed and inactive, not paying particular attention to the flows between these states. This paper discusses a method of calculating labour market flows in a...

This study investigates the crowding out effect among old and young workers in the Hungarian public sector, using job-level data. The analysis improves upon analyses based on aggregate data by considering the levels of employment for various labour types and the employment opportunities and...