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Zaman, Shaifuz - 2016

We focus on chronically under performing firms and assess the roles of institutional investors in either facilitating asset redeployment or entrenching managers. We find no evidence that holdings of traditional activist public pension funds lead to improved performance

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Managerial Expectations and the Performance of Acquiring Firms : The Contribution of Soft Data

Cicon, Jim - 2015

This study examines whether the “soft” information present in merger and acquisition announcement press releases contains incrementally valuable news relative to traditional “hard” data and analyst generated information. We use Diction, a textual-analysis program, to construct measures...

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Corporate Governance and Bank Performance in Nepal

Pradhan, Prof. Dr. Radhe Shyam - 2016

This paper examines the impact and importance of Corporate Governance on firm performance. The return on assets and … Size, Total Assets and Executive CEO of the firms are the independent Corporate Governance variables. The data are … incorporated in Companies Act, 2063 and concerned by-laws regarding corporate governance, the provisions on Bank and Financial …

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The Real Effects of Private Equity Buyouts

Tåg, Joacim - 2010

Private equity buyouts have become a common element in the industrial development process. I survey the literature on the real economic effect of buyouts: employment, wages, productivity, and long-run investments. Employment tend to marginally fall after a buyout in most countries studied, with...

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Corporate Governance and Firms' Performance in Nigeria

Tanko, Professor Muhammad - 2010

The aim of this paper is to measure the relationship between corporate governance and the performance of firms in …/values as the key variables that defined the performance of the firm. On the other hand, for the measure of corporate governance …

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Private Equity in Financial Institutions : Value Creation and Performance

Graf, Christian - 2009

In this paper we introduce a framework to analyze the key drivers of value creation of private equity in financial institutions and the bank holding sub-segment. We estimate the influence of market-timing, take specifications of this highly regulated industry into account, and approximate the...

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Corporate Governance and Performance in Socially Responsible Corporations : New Empirical Insights from a Neo-Institutional Framework

Ntim, Collins G. - 2013

governance (CG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR), and consequently, examines whether CG can positively moderate the …

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CEO Successions and Firm Performance in the US Financial Industry

Falato, Antonio - 2013

human capital is very valuable in the financial industry, and weak internal governance hurts firm performance by limiting …

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The real effects of private equity buyouts

Tåg, Joacim - 2010

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The Impact of Privatization on State-Owned Enterprises Performance and Efficiency : Case Study of Sudan Airways

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011

The current paper analyzes the impacts of privatization of Sudan air carrier, Sudan Airways. The hypothetical framework in this study is that alternative policies other than privatization are feasible. Sudan airways represents the sovereignty of the country carrying its flag, its objectives is...

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