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...

In the context of modern globalization and the financial crisis caused by the Covid pandemic, the integrated risk management system, which is conditioned and based on the international standard of Basel 3, has become widespread in the banking sector. Therefore, it is important to discuss the...

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...

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....

We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). Using specifications based on first-differences and unique instrumental variables, we find that few types of private ownership improve...

A common assumption in the academic literature is that franchise value plays a key role in limiting bank risk-taking. As market power is the primary source of franchise value, reduced competition in banking markets has been seen as promoting banking stability. We test this hypothesis using data...

In Chapter 1, I document a negative (positive) relationship between changes in large (small) blockholders' ownership and abnormal returns. The evidence in this paper suggests that an increase in the relatively large blockholders' ownership raises the consumption of private benefits while an...

El artículo propone un marco para evaluar el impacto de los colchones de capital a nivel de todo el sistema y a nivel bancario. La evaluación se basa en un modelo FAVAR (Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression) que relaciona los ajustes bancarios individuales con la dinámica macroeconómica....

El colchón de capital anticíclico (CCyB, por sus siglas en inglés) se ha convertido en una herramienta macroprudencial muy importante para reforzar la resistencia de los bancos debido a su diseño anticíclico y a su posibilidad de ser liberado. Sin embargo, la evidencia sobre su impacto en...

There is a substantial number of cases where the a priori relationshipbetween products is not at all clear in the sense that although apparentto be clear substitutes may turn out to be in fact complements, orvice-versa. This paper aims to study the relationship between fixed andmobile telephony...