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Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …
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We show that financial constraints may benefit innovation by improving the efficiency of innovative activities. We … measure firm-level innovative efficiency by patents (or patent citations) scaled by R&D (research and development) investment … or the number of employees, and find that financial constraints are positively associated with innovative efficiency …
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I study the relation between corporate diversification and labor productivity in a sample of over 600,000 firms from 89 countries. Across the entire sample, greater diversification is associated with significantly lower labor productivity. Contrary to theories emphasizing the inefficient use of...
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, risk and efficiency. Compensation analyses show strong variation in compensation schemes between banks and bank divisions …
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efficiency. This study also reveals that ownership concentration (blockholding) has adverse effects for the profit and cost … efficiency of banks …
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The paper argues that the weakest link principle, which has been widely used as a measure of ultimate owners' control rights, has a number of serious problems. A theoretically more satisfactory method of measuring control rights, based on voting power indices, is proposed, and the different...
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Outside directors and audit committees are widely considered to be central elements of good corporate governance. We use a 1999 Korean law as an exogenous shock to assess how board structure affects firm market value. The law mandates 50% outside directors and an audit committee for large public...
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Using a sample of 104 companies that conducted initial public offering (IPO) on the Warsaw Stock Exchange between 2006 and 2016, we investigated the relationship between the accuracy and bias of the earnings forecast disclosed in the IPO prospectus and the firm corporate governance attributes....
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