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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: CHALLENGES FOR LATIN AMERICA
LEFORT, FERNANDO; WALKER, EDUARDO - In: Abante 2 (2000) 2, pp. 99-111
Corporate Governance relates to mechanisms through which providers of resources to the firm get their share of resources in return. Adequate governance practices help develop capital markets and assist market forces in attaining efficient contracts. Convincing evidence exists that well developed...
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Corporate Governance and Sectoral Patterns of Innovation: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Industries
Belloc, Filippo; laurenza, Eleonora; Rossi, Maria Alessandra - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2015
The paper explores the question whether the relationship between corporate governance dimensions and innovation at the … concentrated ownership structure has a positive effect on innovation, while the opposite is true for Schumpeter Mark II sectors. We … the contradictory findings of the literature on corporate governance and innovation. …
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PENSION REFORM AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: IMPACT IN CHILE
IGLESIAS-PALAU, AUGUSTO - In: Abante 3 (2000) 1, pp. 109-109
visibility of AFP investment decisions. AFPs began to invest in stocks in 1985, and have behaved since as active shareholders …
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Local Ownership as Private Information: Evidence on the Monitoring-Liquidity Trade-Off
Gaspar, José-Miguel; Massa, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper investigates the impact of ownership patterns on the way the firm is monitored, on the liquidity of its shares, and on its stock price. Building on the literature showing that local mutual funds (funds holding geographically close firms) enjoy superior returns due to private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497985
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Ownership, Dividends, R&D and Retained Earnings - are institutional owners short-term oriented?
Wiberg, Daniel - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
This paper investigates the link between institutional ownership and dividend policy. Utilizing a dividend payout model, which accounts for earnings trends and partial adjustments of dividends, a positive but marginally diminishing relation is found between institutional ownership and dividends....
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Crisis, internal governance mechanisms and pension fund performance: Evidence from Poland
Jackowicz, Krzysztof; Kowalewski, Oskar - In: Emerging Markets Review 13 (2012) 4, pp. 493-515
This study provides new insight on the impact of supervisory board structure as an internal governance mechanism on privately defined contribution pension fund performance in Poland. Using a hand-collected data set, we find evidence that the chairman, as a motivated insider, plays an important...
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De la "Pension Governance" à la "Corporate Governance": la transmission d'un mode de gouvernement
Montagne, Sabine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2001
corporate governance can be viewed as a consequence of the pension industry reorganisation which occured in the 1970s and 1980s in so far as corporate governance borrows the same organisational principles.
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Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity
Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; Loeff, … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2012
Using a unique panel data of Dutch innovation and financial variables we empirically investigate how financing and … innovation vary across firm characteristics. The study also tries to gauge the extent of market failure due to the presence of …, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics such as age, size, and existing leverage …
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Microeconometric evidence of financing frictions and innovative activity
Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz C.; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
Using a unique panel data of Dutch innovation and financial variables we empirically investigate how financing and … innovation vary across firm characteristics. The study also tries to gauge the extent of market failure due to the presence of …, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics such as age, size, and existing leverage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856360
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OVER-INDEBTEDNESS AND INNOVATION: SOME PRELIMINARY RESULTS
Costanzo, Damiana Giuseppina; Silipo, Damiano Bruno; … - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Statistiche e … - 2013
The paper studies the impact of firms’ over-indebtedness on innovation. First, we build up an over-indebtedness index … results confirm the significant role played by other forms of indebtedness in explaining innovation also when we focus only on … high-tech sectors and on over-indebted firms. With respect to the South, the relationship between debt and innovation is …
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