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We explore the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector. We exploit a dataset comprising firmlevel information on a representative sample of 220 electric utilities from 51 development countries for the period 1985 to 2005. Our...
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Limited competition has been a serious concern in infrastructure procurement. Importantly, however, there are normally a number of potential bidders initially showing interest in proposed projects. This paper focuses on tackling the question why these initially interested bidders fade out. An...
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Since the middle of the nineteen-eighties, the French system of corporate governance has undergone some major transformations. Originally, it was dominated by the State’s important weight in the structures constraining managerial discretion in some of France’s largest firms. But, the public...
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La gouvernance, définie comme l’ensemble des mécanismes qui délimitent l’espace discrétionnaire du dirigeant, est désormais reconnue comme un aspect important dans la vie d’une entreprise. Cette reconnaissance s’est traduite, depuis environ une décennie, par des initiatives...
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of crafting different control instances in order to provide checks on validity. …
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Une comparaison rapide des contextes institutionnels de différents pays indique que le gouvernement des entreprises n'est pas indépendant de l'environnement national, dans lequel évolue la firme. En même temps, les systèmes de gouvernement des entreprises à l'intérieur d'un pays ne sont...
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The O.M. Scott case study published in 1989 in the Journal of Financial Economics has come to be a classic in illustrating the plausibility of some fundamental concepts that underpin mainstream models of the efficiency attributes of capital structure in modern corporate finance. In these models,...
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(VF)L'objectif de cet article est de proposer une présentation synthétique du système de gouvernance français;(VA)The objective of this article is to shortly describe the French corporate governance system.
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legitimacy such that even companies with a rather concentrated control structure feel compelled to state their conformity with …
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(VF)L’un des traits distinctifs du système de gouvernance à l’allemande est la représentation paritaire des salariés au sein des conseils de surveillance des grandes entreprises. Souvent considérée comme «culturellement» allemande, le présent article montre cependant qu’une...
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