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Israel; Detailed Assessment of IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
Israel’s compliance with International Organization of Securities Commissions’ objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation has been assessed. The regulatory regime is well developed and in most respects is comparable with that of major jurisdictions. For the most part, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242660
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: CHALLENGES FOR LATIN AMERICA
LEFORT, FERNANDO; WALKER, EDUARDO - In: Abante 2 (2000) 2, pp. 99-111
Corporate Governance relates to mechanisms through which providers of resources to the firm get their share of resources in return. Adequate governance practices help develop capital markets and assist market forces in attaining efficient contracts. Convincing evidence exists that well developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005813742
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People’s Republic of China; Detailed Assessment Report: IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This paper discusses a detailed assessment report on the observance of China’s compliance with the International Organization of Securities Commission's objectives and principles of securities regulation. The reform of nontradable shares introduced a market-based pricing system for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242961
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Corporate ownership structure and its impacts on firms' innovation level: Tunisian cases
Chouaibi, Jamel - In: International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and … 9 (2013) 1, pp. 58-74
investors may not influence management decision making concerning innovation investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670418
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Spain; The Reform of Spanish Savings Banks Technical Notes
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This technical note assesses the reform of Spanish savings banks (SSBs). It provides a brief overview of the SSB institutional framework before the reform, and describes the main factors that led to the financial distress, albeit uneven, of the SSB sector. The note outlines major regulatory and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244106
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United States; Publication of Financial Sector Assessment Program Documentation: Detailed Assessment of Implementation of the IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulati...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
This paper presents Detailed Assessment of the United States’s implementation of the International Organization of Securities Commissions’ Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation. The general preconditions for effective securities regulation in the United States are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243733
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Institutional Investors as Minority Shareholders: Do They Matter When Ownership Is Concentrated?
Hamdani, Assaf; Yafeh, Yishay - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We shed new light on the corporate governance role of institutional investors in markets where concentrated ownership and business groups are prevalent. When companies have controlling shareholders, institutional investors, as minority shareholders, can play only a limited role in corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554240
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Investment Financing in Russian Financial-Industrial Groups
Perotti, Enrico C.; Gelfer, Stanislav - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998
We study whether Russian Financial-Industrial Groups facilitate access by Russian firms to investment finance. We … control set of large firms categorized by dispersed ownership or/and management and employee control. We find that investment … reallocation hide opportunistic value transfer across firms. Specifically, we assess the quality of the investment process in group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677603
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Investment behavior and ownership structures in Ukraine: Soft budget constraints, government ownership and private benefits of control
Mykhayliv, Dariya; Zauner, Klaus G. - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 265-278
This paper analyzes the relationship between investment behavior of firms and ownership and corporate governance … firms and its effect on investment behavior via the presence of private benefits of control, financial and soft budget … constraints. We find a negative impact of government ownership on investment and evidence for soft budget constraints. Foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662538
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The impact of dominant ownership: the case of Anglo-American firms
Muller-Kahle, Maureen - In: Journal of Management and Governance 19 (2015) 1, pp. 71-89
that the largest or dominant shareholder of a firm may have differing incentives to monitor their investment in the firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011155164