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Ownership, Control and Corporate Performance After Large-Scale Privatization
Hanousek, Jan; Ko?enda, Evžen; Svejnar, Jan - 2004
-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). Using specifications based on first-differences and unique instrumental variables, we find … that few types of private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic …
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Liberalization, Corporate Governance, and the Performance of Newly Privatized Firms
Boubakri, Narjess; Cosset, Jean-Claude; Guedhami, Omrance - 2001
This paper seeks to provide an answer to the following question, namely when and how does privatization work? Using a … reforms and environment have an effect on the changes in operating performance. For example, we find that privatization yields … post-privatization performance changes. In particular, economic growth, control relinquishment by the government and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477478
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Board composition and corporate performance: How the Australian experience informs contrasting theories of corporate governance
Kiel, Geoffrey C.; Nicholson, Gavin J. - 2003
In many respects, Australian boards more closely approach normative best practice guidelines for corporate governance than boards in other Western countries. Do Australian firms then demonstrate a board demographic-organisational performance link that has not been found in other economies? We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447876
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Impact of M & A on firm performance in India: Implications for concentration of ownership and insider entrenchment
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Selarka, Ekta - 2008
performance. On the one hand, concentration of ownership that, in turn, concentrates management control in the hands of a strategic investor, eliminates agency problems associated with dispersed ownership. On the other hand, it may lead to entrenchment of upper management which may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477189
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UK executive pay: the special case of executive bonuses
Fattorusso, Jay - 2006
Executive pay research has traditionally focused on salary, severance payments and longtermincentives. A systematic rigorous empirical examination of short-term annualbonuses is lacking. To address this omission, this research empirically examines therelationship between short-term bonuses and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461122
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Ownership, control and firm performance in Europe
Tong, Guanqun - 2010
This study is motivated by one of the most prevalent properties of modern corporations: separation of ownership and control. Ownership concentration has been one of the corporate governance mechanisms to solve the agency problem between shareholders and management. Existing literature is mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461307
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The impact of board size on firm performance: evidence from the UK
Guest, Paul M. - 2009
We examine the impact of board size on firm performance for a large sample of 2746 UK listed firms over 1981-2002. The UK provides an interesting institutional setting, because UK boards play a weak monitoring role and therefore any negative effect of large board size is likely to reflect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463063
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Essays on institutional trader monitoring and its impact on firm value, CEO compensation, and board composition
Chen, Chi-Wei Brandon, Banking & Finance, Australian … - 2011
The ?Wall Street Rule? (WSR), a form of institutional investor monitoring, has long been viewed as a ?cut-and-run? strategy adopted by disillusioned institutional investors to express their dissatisfaction with the management of a company. This dissertation shows that WSR, far from being a...
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Aufsichtsräte deutscher Aktiengesellschaften: Zusammensetzung, Interventionsaktivitäten, Performance
Vetter, Karin - 2011
actions. Despite this process of reform, scientific studies on supervisory boards of German companies are scarce. In the light …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475315
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451182