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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...
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The ownership structure of repurchasing firms
Skjeltorp, Johannes A.; Ødegaard, Bernt Arne - Norges Bank - 2004
This paper provides an examination of the ownership structure in Norwegian firms that announced repurchase plans during the period 1999 through 2001, as well as for groups of these firms conditional on whether they actually executed repurchases or not. By using detailed information on various...
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Corporate Governance and Dividends Payout in India
Kumar, Jayesh - EconWPA - 2004
Indian corporate firms over the period 1994-2000. We explain the differences in the dividend payout behavior of the firms … with the help of firm’s financial structure, investments opportunities, dividend history, earnings trend, and the ownership …
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External Relationship of Russian Corporations
Avdasheva, Svetlana; Golikova, Victoria; Sugiura, Fumikazu - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005748619
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Ownership Concentation and Executive COmpenation in Closely Held Firms: Evidence from Hong Kong
Cheung, Yan-Leung; Stouraitis, Aris; Wong, Anita - Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research (HKIMR), … - 2003
Owners-managers of closely held firms effectively decide on the level of their own compensation. We test the relationship between ownership concentration and executive compensation, using panel data for a sample of 412 Hong Kong firms during 1995-1998. We find a positive relationship between...
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Majority support of shareholders, monitoring incentive, and dividend policy
Mori, Naoya; Ikeda, Naoshi - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 30 (2015) C, pp. 1-10
's dividend policy. When dividend-averse individuals collectively hold a majority stake in a dispersed ownership structure, a … dividend-seeking blockholder might be compelled to propose lower dividends than the tax-optimum to dominate the zero-dividend …
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Corporate Governance and Dividends Payout in India
Kumar, Jayesh - In: Journal of Emerging Market Finance 5 (2006) 1, pp. 15-58
Indian corporate firms over the period 1994–2000. We explain the differences in the dividend payout behaviour of the firms … with the help of firms' financial structure, investment opportunities, dividend history, earnings trend and the ownership … its squares. We find no evidence in favour of an association between foreign ownership and dividend payout growth. …
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Patterns in Payout Policy and Payout Channel Choice of UK Firms in the 1990s
Renneboog, Luc; Trojanowski, G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005
The paper examines the payout policy of UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange during the 1990s.We complement the existing payout literature studies by analyzing jointly the trends in dividends and share repurchases.Unlike in the US, we find that, in the UK, firms do not demonstrate a...
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The Internal Control System of Russian Corporations
Abe, Naohito; Dolgopyatova, Tatiana G.; Iwasaki, Ichiro - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2007
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Gouvernance familiale et politique de distribution aux actionnaires
Charlier, Patrice; Duboys, Céline - In: Revue Finance Contrôle Stratégie 14 (2011) 1, pp. 5-31
(VF)L’objectif de cette étude est d’analyser la relation entre les politiques de distribution des entreprises familiales cotées et deux grands types de conflits d’agence dans les entreprises familiales, entre actionnaires et dirigeant (type I), et entre actionnaires majoritaires et...
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