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The evolution of bank boards of directors in New York, 1840-1950

White, Eugene N.; Bodenhorn, Howard - 2014

Contemporary bank governance is criticized for manager-dominated (insider) boards of directors, but from the beginning of the nineteenth century, bank presidents appear also to have operated as chairmen of the boards of directors. However, the managers were constrained by a variety of rules that...

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Learning from the past: trends in executive compensation over the twentieth century

Frydman, Carola - 2008

In recent years, a large academic debate has tried to explain the rapid rise in CEO pay experienced over the past three decades. In this article, I review the main proposed theories, which span views of compensation as the result of a competitive labor market for executives to theories based on...

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Corporate governance and incentive contracts: historical evidence from a legal reform

Bayer, Christian; Burhop, Carsten - 2008

monitoring incentives of shareholders, and reduced the discretionary power of executives in Germany. Pay-performance sensitivity …

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Cartels, managerial incentives, and productive efficiency in German coal mining, 1881-1913

Burhop, Carsten; Lübbers, Thorsten - 2008

coal mining corporations. We focus on coal mining in the Ruhr district, Germany's main mining area. We use stochastic …

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The price of media capture and the looting of newspapers in interwar France

Bignon, Vincent; Flandreau, Marc - 2012

This paper develops a new insight enabling the empirical study of media capture: minority shareholders of newspapers and readers face similar risks. Both are adversely affected when corrupt insiders use the newspaper for personal profit and receive invisible revenues. This means that relevant...

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The rise and fall of the Normalarbeitsverhältnis in Germany

Pierenkemper, Toni - 2009

The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the … consolidation of the welfare state, this type of employment was reinforced in Germany in the 20th century and finally developed into …

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Employer preferences and social policy: Business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I

Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010

This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from …

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Financial Vergangenheitsbewältigung: The 1953 London Debt Agreement

Guinnane, Timothy W. - 2004

The 1953 London Debt Agreement settled Germany's debts from the period between the two world wars, and allowed the … percent and gave the debtors a much longer period to repay. One interesting clause in the Agreement allowed Germany to … problems that would arise with making any part of the Agreement contingent on events Germany could influence. Recent advocates …

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Erhards Bekehrung zum Ordoliberalismus: Die grundlegende Bedeutung des wirtschaftspolitischen Diskurses in Umbruchszeiten

Commun, Patricia - 2004

Mir geht es in dem vorliegenden Beitrag darum, den "wunderlichen" Prozess des politischen Sieges einer bestimmten Form des Wirtschaftsliberalismus in der deutschen Nachkriegszeit zu untersuchen. Diesbezüglich sind Erhards Reden zur Wirtschaftspolitik und dabei seine publizistische Aufarbeitung...

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History matters in microfinance

Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2003

Microfinance is not a recent development, and neither is the development of regulation and supervision of microfinance institutions (MFIs). Every now developed country has its own history of microfinance. It is important to recognize this because it presents a view different from that of many in...

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