found that influence is associated with larger, government-owned firms that have a high degree of ownership concentration …. In contrast, foreign ownership matters little. It is also found that the extent to which government policies and …

We present a new dataset that tracks changes in legal ownership regimes in the petroleum sector between 1867 and 2008 … for a panel of countries. We document that foreign ownership has been taken over by partnerships as the leading ownership … regime, while domestic ownership is on the rise again in recent years. We use this dataset to examine whether institutional …

We examine the profitability of cross-ownership in an oligopolistic industry where firms compete as Cournot rivals. We … consider a symmetric cross-ownership structure in which a subset of k firms engage in cross-shareholding and each firm has an … symmetric cross-ownership is never profitable for any levels of non-controlling minority shareholdings if the participation …

We present a new dataset that tracks changes in legal ownership regimes in the petroleum sector between 1867 and 2008 … for a panel of countries. We document that foreign ownership has been taken over by partnerships as the leading ownership … regime, while domestic ownership is on the rise again in recent years. We use this dataset to examine whether institutional …