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Sovereign wealth fund investment patterns and performance
Bortolotti, Bernardo; Fotak, Veljko; Megginson, William L. - 2009
We examine 802 investments by 33 Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) in publicly traded companies between May 1985 and November 2009, and find that SWFs tend to invest in large, levered, profitable growth firms, usually headquartered in an OECD country. Announcements of SWF investments yield...
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Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment Patterns and Performance
Megginson, William L.; Bortolotti, Bernardo; Fotak, Veljko - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
This study describes the newly created Monitor-FEEM Sovereign Wealth Fund Database and discusses the investment patterns and performance of 1,216 individual investments, worth over $357 billion, made by 35 sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) between January 1986 and September 2008. Approximately half...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012141
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Corporate governance in India
Chakrabarti, Rajesh; Megginson, William L.; Yadav, … - 2007
This study describes the Indian corporate governance system and examines how the system has both supported and held back India's ascent to the top ranks of the world's economies. While on paper the country's legal system provides some of the best investor protection in the world, enforcement is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302556
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Corporate governance in India
Chakrabarti, Rajesh; Megginson, William L.; Yadav, … - Institut für Finanzmarktforschung, Wirtschafts- und … - 2007
This study describes the Indian corporate governance system and examines how the system has both supported and held back India's ascent to the top ranks of the world's economies. While on paper the country's legal system provides some of the best investor protection in the world, enforcement is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684986
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Dividend Policy in the European Union
von Eije, J. Henk - 2007
of European firms paying dividends declines dramatically over this period, from 91 to 62 percent of listed companies …, while total real dividends paid and dividend payments as a fraction of total corporate profits increase significantly …. Dividends and earnings are concentrating as sharply among European as among American companies, and similar company …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731782
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Dividend Policy in the European Union
von Eije, J. Henk - 2007
of European firms paying dividends declines dramatically over this period, from 91 to 62 percent of listed companies …, while total real dividends paid and dividend payments as a fraction of total corporate profits increase significantly …. Dividends and earnings are concentrating as sharply among European as among American companies, and similar company …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731880
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Dividends and Share Repurchases in the European Union
von Eije, J. Henk - 2007
Using a database of over 4100 listed industrial companies, we examine the evolution of cash dividends and share … States, the fraction of European firms paying dividends declines over this period, while total real dividends paid increase … listed firms. Our logistic regression analyses of the likelihood to pay dividends and repurchase shares, and our panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775546
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Flexibility of Dividend Policies and Shareholders' Returns in the European Union
von Eije, J. Henk - 2009
We measure flexibility of dividend policy and study its impact on abnormal shareholders' returns in the European Union. When we use relative repurchase frequency and relative repurchase amounts as a measure of flexibility, civil law companies are more flexible. A more frequent use of repurchases...
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Employee Ownership, Board Representation, and Corporate Financial Policies
Megginson, William L. - 2015
impact corporate payout (dividends and share repurchases) policy or board organization and performance. Directors elected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707530
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Employee Ownership, Board Representation, and Corporate Financial Policies
Ginglinger, Edith - 2015
French law mandates that employees of publicly listed companies can elect two types of directors to represent employees. Privatized companies must reserve board seats for directors elected by employees by right of employment, while employee-shareholders can elect a director whenever they hold at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750122