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After Voucher Privatization: The Structure of Corporate Ownership in Russian Manufacturing Industry

Earle, John S; Estrin, Saul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper analyses the ownership structure emerging from the Russian privatization process, using information from a … privatization methods for ownership structure, on the incidence of non-voting and voting shares, and on the extent of concentration …) estimates, suggesting that the privatization process may have contained a negative selection bias with respect to ownership by …

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Improving the business climate in Russia

Radziwill, Artur; Vaziakova, Yana - 2015

Economic growth is below what would be needed to resume rapid convergence to average OECD living standards. On-going efforts to improve the business climate are laudable, but need to be widened and strengthened. Much progress has been achieved in reducing red tape, but it is only recently that...

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Investment efficiency, state-owned enterprises and privatisation : evidence from Vietnam in transition

O'Toole, Conor M.; Morgenroth, Edgar L. W.; Ha Thi Thu Thuy - 2015

Our research tests the difference in investment efficiency between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms and then evaluates the effect of privatisation and equitisation policies on the investment efficiency of former state owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a novel dataset from Viet Nam...

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Government ownership, informed trading, and private information

Borisova, Ginka; Yadav, Pradeep - 2015

We investigate the nature and extent of information asymmetry among traders in companies with government ownership. Consistent with a less transparent information environment, we find relatively less informed trading in the shares of firms with government presence, and specifically, fewer...

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Management Control and Privatization in the United Kingdom

Cragg, Michael; Dyck, I. J. Alexander - 2000

We examine the links between ownership and internal control for a sample of 112 state-owned, privatized, and publicly traded firms in the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1994. Privatized firms with at least four years in the private sector, like established publicly traded firms, exhibit a...

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The Corporate Governance Framework & its Application to Privatizations of Public Enterprises

Kenourgios, Dimitris; Samitas, Aristeidis; … - 2011

This paper is an attempt to evaluate the application of Corporate Governance framework issue within Public domain. It is an attempt to quantify the compliance of Greek companies with international best practices

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The private sector advances in China : the evolving ownership structures of the largest companies in the Xi Jinping era

Huang, Tianlei; Véron, Nicolas - 2022

This paper documents recent structural changes in China's corporate landscape, based on company level data, providing a complementary perspective to that of official Chinese statistics. We classify China's largest companies by revenue since 2004 (based on Fortune Global 500 rankings), and...

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