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Ownership concentration & firm performance: Evidence from an emerging market
Grosfeld, Irena - 2006
The initial view of the advantages of ownership concentration in joint stock companies was determined by the concern about the opportunistic managerial behavior. The growing importance of knowledge and human capital in the operation of firms shifts the focus of concern: excessive ownership...
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Cross-Listing, Close Bank-Firm Relationships and Ownership Structure: Empirical Evidence on Corporate Governance Mechanisms
Korczak, Adriana - 2006
Corporate governance aims to reduce expropriation of investors by managers. This thesis identifies and empirically examines three corporate governance mechanisms: cross-listing in the United States, close bank-firm relationships in Germany and corporate ownership structure in an emerging market....
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Ownership, control and firm performance in Europe
Tong, Guanqun - 2010
be another efficient governance approach. Direct control from founder owners, ultimate control from insurance companies …, and management ownership are beneficial for firm performance, while government, financial institutions except insurance …
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Betting on Global Warming : The Impact of Insurance Instruments on Mitigation of Climate Change
Klimpel, Susanne - 2001
response could be taken, as for example mitigation and insurance. This doctoral thesis focuses on the relation between the … insurance and the mitigation approach. It studies the impact of insurance instruments on mitigation of climate change. The main …
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Incentives and Privacy of Modern Monitoring Technologies: the Example of Automobile Insurance Contracts
Filipova-Neumann, Lilia - 2008
allows them to extend to consumers individually adjusted fair insurance offers. In a market which is characterized by … for the analysis in this thesis. Its purpose is to study the incentives of the agents in the car insurance market … in terms of the design of contracts and to the policy maker in terms of regulating the insurance market. After a short …
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Aufsichtsräte deutscher Aktiengesellschaften: Zusammensetzung, Interventionsaktivitäten, Performance
Vetter, Karin - 2011
Den Aufsichtsräten innerhalb des deutschen Corporate Governance Systems ist in den letzten Jahren erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit zugekommen. Es wurden Empfehlungen und gesetzliche Vorschriften formuliert, die die Zusammensetzung des Aufsichtsratsgremiums sowie dessen Tätigkeiten betreffen. Diesem...
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Disclosure of executive remuneration in large banks
Schott, Max - 2008
The first part of this thesis analyzes and quantifies the magnitude of executive remuneration disclosure of the world’s 245 largest exchange-listed banks, using annual reports as the primary source of information, and the diverse disclosure rules in the 31 countries in which these banks are...
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Zur Rolle der Printmedien bei der Steuerung und ?berwachung von Unternehmen. Eine Analyse der Berichterstattung ?ber die Einhaltung der Grunds?tze des Deutschen Corporate Governanc...
Schmid, Christoph - 2006
Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Feststellung, dass sich die ?konomische Theorie trotz der mehr als 160j?hrigen Geschichte gewerbsm??iger medialer Berichterstattung ?ber das Geschehen rund um M?rkte und Unternehmen lange Zeit kaum mit den Massenmedien besch?ftigt hat. Dabei kann...
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Diffusion of corporate governance practices : the Dutch response to pressures for shareholder value
Bezemer, Pieter-Jan; Zajac, Edward; Van den Bosch, Frans; … - 2011
influence a firm’s adoption and (un)successful implementation of an SVO among the largest 100 corporations in the Netherlands …
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Determinants of financial instrument disclosure patterns of Australian listed resource firms pre- and post-IFRS adoption
Taylor, Grantley J. - 2008
This thesis investigates the pattern of Financial Instrument Disclosures (FIDs) within the annual reports of Australian listed extractive resource companies (mining and petroleum) over a four year longitudinal period encompassing the 2003 to 2006 financial years. This is an important period to...
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