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Vote Buying Through Resource Allocation in a Government Controlled Sector

Bennedsen, Morten - In: Rivista di Politica Economica 93 (2003) 1, pp. 49-78

Standard spatial models of political competition give rise to equilibria in which the competing political parties or candidates converge to a common position. In this paper I show how political polarization can be generated in models that focus on the nexus between pre-election interest group...

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POLITICAL OWNERSHIP

Bennedsen, Morten - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 1999

Political involvement in the operation of an enterprise, whether it is private or state owned, creates opportunities for interest groups to influence the allocation of resources. Resource allocation transfers rent both between unions and private owners within the firm and between these organized...

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Political Ownership

Bennedsen, Morten - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 1998

Political involvement in the operation of an enterprises, whether it is private or state owned, creates opportunities for interest groups to influence the allocation of resources. I analyze how the influence externality arising form the interest groups´lobby activities disables the Coase...

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Public Versus Private Ownership under Costly Taxation

Bennedsen, Morten - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 1998

resources government does not control the firm´s internal resources so any non profit generating activities must be purely tax …

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The Principle of Proportional Ownership, Investor Protection and Firm Value in Western Europe

Bennedsen, Morten - 2006

Previous research initiated by Claessens et al. (2002) has established a value discount of disproportional ownership structures. Due to omitted variables problems it is difficult to provide a causal interpretation of these findings. We provide a thorough analysis of this value discount in a...

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The Impact of a Break-Through Rule on European Firms

Bennedsen, Morten - 2002

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 Germany, Italy and the Scandinavian countries are more likely to … incur a control loss. We continue to estimate the restrictions that the Break-Through rule puts on these firms ability to …

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The Impact of a Break-Through Rule on European Firms

Bennedsen, Morten; Nielsen, Kasper - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2002

. 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 Germany, Italy and the Scandinavian countries are more likely … to incur a control loss. We continue to estimate the restrictions that the Break-Through rule puts on these firms …

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Why do firms have boards?

Bennedsen, Morten - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2002

. Board frequency increases with more owners, if control is diluted and in larger firms. Given firms have a board, non …

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EJERSKABSSTRUKTURER OG KONTROL-ALLOKERING I UNOTEREDE DANSKE VIRKSOMHEDER

Bennedsen, Morten; Nielsen, Kasper - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2001

We analyse the relationship between the distribution of ownership and the allocation of control in Danish closely …, boardmembers and CEOs in these firms. Third, we show the presence of control dilution in firms with multiple owners. Finally …

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The Principle of Proportionality

Bennedsen, Morten; Meisner; Kasper; Nielsen - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2006

proportionality" through proposals that regulate mechanisms opposing a proportional distribution of ownership and control. We … scrutinize the foundation for these initiatives by analyzing the use of instruments to separate ownership from control across …

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