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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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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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Efficiency of French Privatizations : A Dynamic Vision

Alexandre, Hervé; Charreaux, Gerard J. - 2015

reading of the privatization process through the corporate governance theory resulted in the development of a model allowing … to take into account, on the one hand, the temporal dimension of the privatization process, and on the other hand, the … confirmed for French privatizations, at least for the considered horizon. Privatization induces a significant positive effect on …

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The missing shock : the macroeconomic impact of British privatisation

Florio, Massimo; Grasseni, Mara - 2004

The privatisation policy pursued in the UK by Mrs Thatcher's government (1979-1990) and subsequently by Mr Major's government (1990-1997) was the largest experiment in public divestitures among capitalist economies. It had a deep impact on economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly...

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Management Control and Privatization in the United Kingdom

Cragg, Michael; Dyck, 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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Sultan Balbuena, Sara - 2016

The rise in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as growing actors in international trade and investment has received renewed attention in recent years, not least due to controversy that has arisen over SOE foreign investments. This has raised the profile of these issues with policy makers and tilted...

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Bank ownership, board characteristics and performance : evidence from commercial banks in India

Sarkar, Jayati; Sarkar, Subrata - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-30

We study the effect of board governance in state-owned and private banks by undertaking a study of commercial banks in India that has both bank groups. Covering a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012 that witnessed a large number of governance reforms in India, the results of our empirical analysis...

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Mixed Ownership in Corporative Sector : Evolution, Management, Regulation

Radygin, Alexander; Malginov, Georgy - 2012

respect to improving the system of governance of such companies including potential privatization. Review of law enforcement …

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State-owned enterprises in Uzbekistan : taking stock and some reform priorities

Abdullaev, Umidjon - 2020

privatization initiatives. A number of recommendations for addressing key issues identified in the paper are outlined. …

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The unfinished business of state-owned enterprise reform in the People's Republic of China

Holz, Carsten A. - 2019

This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After defining SOEs and considering their scope of operation within the PRC economy, the focus of the paper is on the major reform waves that followed the deterioration of SOE profitability...

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