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The effects of size on local banks' funding costs
Vins, Oliver; Bloch, Thomas - 2008
Motivated by the recent discussion of the declining importance of deposits as banks' major source of funding we investigate which factors determine funding costs at local banks. Using a panel data set of more than 800 German local savings and cooperative banks for the period from 1998 to 2004 we...
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Mergers and acquisitions - the standing of theory in the quest for better institutions and policy
Jensen, Camilla - 2010
The paper shows that the standing of theory in the field of mergers and acquisitions is weak for at least three reasons. Research is best described as a battlefield of ad hoc theory testing leaving behind a fragmented field. Research has focused traditionally on high intensity markets under the...
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Dissynergies of mergers among local banks
Bloch, Thomas - 2008
banks have a substantial and persistent negative impact on merging banks' revenues. We refer to merger related negative … customers and the temporary distraction of management from day-to-day operations by effecting the merger. For our analyses we … involved in 212 mergers between 1994 and 2006. We find that the negative impact of a merger on net operating revenues amounts …
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Private Equity and Employees
Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - 2012
Using linked employer-employee data from Sweden, a difference-in-difference approach, and 201 private equity buyouts undertaken between 1998 and 2004, we show that unemployment risk declines and labor income increases for employees in the wake of a private equity buyout. Unemployment risk...
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A primer on governance and performance in small and medium-sized enterprises
Yacuzzi, Enrique - 2005
This paper is a primer on corporate performance, corporate governance, and their interrelationships and measurement systems, with particular focus on Small and Medium- Sized Enterprises (SMEs). This is the first report of a larger on going research project. In the domain of performance...
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Cross-border M&As and eco-environmental performance of European energy utilities
Monastyrenko, Evgenii - 2016
-border deals was market players' response. Measuring of post-merger performance alterations is a central question of M&A literature …
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Gender quotas on boards of directors
Smith, Nina - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Arguments for increasing gender diversity on boards of directors range from ensuring equal opportunity to improving firm performance, but the empirical results are mixed and often negative. Current research does not justify gender quotas on grounds of economic efficiency. Furthermore, in most...
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Female-Led Firms: Performance and Risk Attitudes
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....
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Gender quotas on boards of directors
Smith, Nina - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
Arguments for increasing gender diversity on boards of directors by gender quotas range from ensuring equal opportunity to improving firm performance. The introduction of gender quotas in a number of countries has increased female representation on boards. Current research does not justify...
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The relationship between corporate governance mechanisms and the performance of Saudi listed firms
Al-Faryan, Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh - In: Corporate Ownership & Control 14 (2017) 2-2, pp. 338-349
This paper gauges, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the pertinent variables to corporate governance practices and their relationship to business productivity in the context of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This study was conducted in response to the limited literature in this context. A new...
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