This study investigates the determinants of changes in corporate ownership and firm failure, taking into account … likely to fail or to be sold when performance is poor, financial pressure is high, and firm size is small. Cross ownership … deters control changes, and ownership concentration has a non-linear impact on the likelihood of control transfer. In …

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 generally not that of the business group surrounding it. Second, majority …

: French-speaking directors are prevalent in Swiss French boards and German-speaking directors in Swiss German boards. More … importantly, however, boards of these two parts of Switzerland are more likely to be structured as in their respective neighboring …

This study examines changes in block ownership for a large sample of listed and non-listed German firms. The frequency … ownership (control transfers). Such changes are more likely for firms with high leverage, while they are less likely for larger … firms and firms with high ownership concentration. Only for listed firms poor performance is related to more frequent …

This paper analyses ownership and control structures of Dutch listed companies. Legislation effective since 1992 … that the average ownership stakes of the largest and the three largest shareholders are 27% and 41%, respectively. The … average ownership stakes of banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions are relatively low. We observe that …

listed companies. This article introduces the concept of an ownership-based style index of listed firms in Germany, the …

I show that ownership by blockholding and board composition is an important determinant of corporate debt maturity … link with insider ownership is non-linear. …