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gather information on investment projects. The initial owner has two tasks: monitoring the manager and supervising project … choice. Optimality would require a large ownership stake for monitoring but a small stake for not interfering with managerial …. The large shareholder retains full ownership of the firm but monitoring, and the resulting firing policy, are distorted …
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monitoring. We consider the case in which the large shareholder sits on (and controls) the supervisory board but not the …
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This paper examines empirically how firm ownership structure affects its research- and development (R&D) intensity. To begin with, a principal-agent problem created by the separation of the management of a firm (the agent) and its ownership (the principal) is reviewed, and prior empirical...
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The subprime crisis led to a wave of government interventions in the private sector that has been particularly strong in Europe and Latin America, where several governments are large shareholders in a variety of public firms. In a sense, the subprime crisis induced these governments to behave as...
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