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Dynamics in ownership and firm survival: evidence from corporate Germany
Heiss, Florian; Köke, Jens - 2001
This study investigates the determinants of changes in corporate ownership and firm failure, taking into account different types of sellers and buyers of control blocks. For a large panel of German corporations we find that firms are more likely to fail or to be sold when performance is poor,...
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Control transfers in corporate Germany: their frequency, causes and consequences
Köke, Jens - 2000
This study examines changes in block ownership for a large sample of listed and non-listed German firms. The frequency of block trading is similar to other countries, and the vast majority of block trades leads to changes in ultimate ownership (control transfers). Such changes are more likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297730
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Determinants of acquisition and failure: stylized facts and lessons for empirical studies
Köke, Jens - 2001
This study provides new stylized facts on the determinants of corporate failure and acquisition in Germany. It also offers important lessons for the design of empirical studies. We show that firms experiencing failure or acquisition are significantly different from surviving firms on a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297767
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Corporate Governance and Leverage: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Arping, Stefan; Sautner, Zacharias - 2010
We argue that the recent corporate governance reform in the Netherlands provides a natural experiment to explore the impact of changes in corporate governance on financing policy. We find that, relative to a control sample of comparable firms outside the Netherlands, Dutch firms significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325946
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Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions: The Role of Private Equity Firms
Humphery-Jenner, Mark; Sautner, Zacharias; Suchard, Jo-Ann - 2012
We study the role of private equity firms in cross-border mergers and acquisitions. We find that private equity-owned firms are more likely to become targets in crossborderM&A transactions. This effect is particularly strong in transactions where the target or its shareholders actively reach out...
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Business Groups, Bank Control and Large Shareholders: An Analysis of German Takeovers
Boehmer, Ekkehart - 1999
I analyse the effect of ownership structure and bank control on performance. I employ a unique data set of 715 German takeovers to test whether group structure, large shareholders, and bank control affect their value to shareholders. First, I find that takeovers increase bidder value, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608484
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Monitoring managers: does it matter?
Cornelli, Francesca; Kominek, Zbigniew; Ljungqvist, … - 2010
We test under what circumstances boards discipline managers and whether such interventions improve performance. We …
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Do Entrenched Managers Pay Their Workers More?
Cronqvist, Henrik; Heyman, Fredrik; Nilsson, Mattias; … - 2005
find that entrenched managers pay their workers more. For example, our estimates show that CEOs with more control rights … as evidence of agency problems between shareholders and managers affecting workers' pay. The findings do not appear to be … with an agency model in which entrenched managers pay high wages because they come with private benefits, such as lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320116
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The Executive Turnover Risk Premium
Peters, Florian S.; Wagner, Alexander F. - 2012
We establish that CEOs of companies experiencing volatile industry conditions are more likely tobe dismissed. At the same time, industry risk is, controlling for various other factors, unlikelyto be directly associated with CEO compensation other than through dismissal risk. Using...
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Executive compensation and the susceptibility of firms to hostile takeovers. An empirical investigation of the U.S. oil industry
Nowak, Eric; Haid, Michael H. - 1999
takeover imposed by the market for corporate control. We complement other empirical studies on managerial compensation and … consists of 51 firms in the U.S. oil industry from 1977 to 1994. Third, we employ ex ante measures of the threat of takeover at … the individual firm level which are superior to ex post measures like actual takeover occurrence or past incidence of …
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