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Israel; Detailed Assessment of IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
Israel’s compliance with International Organization of Securities Commissions’ objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation has been assessed. The regulatory regime is well developed and in most respects is comparable with that of major jurisdictions. For the most part, it is...
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Developing Essential Financial Markets in Smaller Economies; Stylized Facts and Policy Options
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper surveys the foreign exchange markets, money and secondary government security markets, and stock exchanges in 107 smaller economy countries. The underdevelopment of these markets impedes risk transfer, monetary policy, corporate financing, and the capacity to absorb capital inflows....
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THE VALUE OF HEDGING THROUGH CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: A LITERATURE REVIEW AND DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
Jorge, Maria João; Augusto, Mário Gomes - In: Portuguese Journal of Management Studies XVI (2011) 2, pp. 113-130
Previous empirical studies concerning corporate hedging have investigated several arguments that have been suggested to … explain why corporate hedging is value-enhancing. Another stream of research examined the direct impact of hedging on firm … understanding the value of hedging activities. This paper aims to present a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960493
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Blockholder dispersion and firm value
Konijn, Sander J. J.; Kräussl, Roman; Lucas, André - Center for Financial Studies - 2010
This paper analyzes the impact of blockownership dispersion on firm value. Blockholdings by multiple blockholders is a widespread phenomenon in the U.S. market. It is not clear, however, whether dispersion among blockholder is preferable to having a more concentrated ownership structure. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010986382
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Does Ownership Structure Influence Firm Value? An Empirical Research towards the Bucharest Stock Exchange Listed Companies
Vintila, Georgeta; Gherghina, Þtefan Cristian - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 5 (2015) 2, pp. 501-514
The aim of this study is to research the influence of ownership structure on firm value in order to provide, from our knowledge, the first results for the case of the Bucharest stock exchange listed companies. Therefore, we have considered the shareholdings of the following types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268823
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Blockholder Dispersion and Firm Value
Konijn, Sander J.J.; Kraeussl, Roman; Lucas, Andre - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
This paper analyzes the impact of blockownership dispersion on firm value. Blockholdings by multiple blockholders is a widespread phenomenon in the U.S. market. It is not clear, however, whether dispersion among blockholder is preferable to having a more concentrated ownership structure. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513240
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An investigation of the association between ownership structure and corporate performance: Empirical evidence from Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE)
Alipour, Mohammad - In: Management Research Review 36 (2013) 11, pp. 1137-1166
Purpose - The main purpose of the present research is to study the relationship between ownership concentration and the type of ownership, i.e. state, firm (legal persons), individual, family, institutional – on the value of the companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746917
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Examining the Effects of Non-Bound Board members and Ownership Structure as Corporate governance Mechanisms on Firm Value
Valipour, Hashem; Moradi, Javad; Zare, Ladan - In: International Journal of Academic Research in … 2 (2012) 2, pp. 55-68
Corporate governance mechanisms were generated, due to a conflict of interest between owners and managers and to eliminate the problems of representation and assured shareholders that their funds will not be wasted because of investing on non-profit activities. Improving corporate governance is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706259
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The value relevance of the development of a corporate governance system
Hsu, Chung-Cheng; Chao, Chin-Fang; Chen, Ming-Chia - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 5 (2013) 3, pp. 302-318
This study first examines whether it is appropriate to integrate the 13 observed corporate governance mechanisms into the multiconstruct of information transparency, ownership structure, board structure, and firm value, and further explores whether a company's simultaneous adoption of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010816778
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Blockholder dispersion and firm value
Konijn, Sander J.J.; Kräussl, Roman; Lucas, Andre - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 17 (2011) 5, pp. 1330-1339
Multiple blockholder structures are a widespread phenomenon in the U.S. The theoretical literature, however, provides conflicting predictions on whether a single large blockholder or a set of dispersed smaller blockholders is better for firm value. Using U.S. data, we find a negative correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011052874