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Performance Consequences of Privatizing Egyptian State-Owned Enterprises : The Effect of Post-Privatization Ownership Structure on Firm Performance
Omran, Mohammed - 2016
determines whether such performance differs across firms according to their new ownership structure. The Egyptian privatization … program provides unique post-privatization data on different ownership structures. Since most studies do not distinguish … between the types of ownership, this paper provides new insight into the impact that post-privatization ownership structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013004377
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Performance Consequences of Privatizing Egyptian State-Owned Enterprises : The Effect of Post-Privatization Ownership Structure on Firm Performance
Omran, Mohammed - 2004
majority initial public offerings. Keywords: Privatization, SOEs, Egypt, Ownership Structure … determines whether such performance differs across firms according to their new ownership structure. The Egyptian privatization … program provides unique post-privatization data on different ownership structures. Since most studies do not distinguish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014126013
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Does Ownership Matter? The Performance and Efficiency of State Oil vs. Private Oil (1987-2006)
Wolf, Christian O. H. - 2009
This paper investigates the existence of ownership effects in the global oil and gas industry, i.e. whether there are systematic performance and efficiency differentials between National Oil Companies (NOCs) and privately-owned International Oil Companies (IOCs). After discussing key issues of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217790
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Privatization, state ownership, and bank performance in Egypt
Omran, Mohammed - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 35 (2007) 4, pp. 714-733
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003446673
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Performance consequences of privatizing Egyptian state-owned enterprises : the effect of post-privatization ownership structure on firm perfomance
Omran, Mohammed - In: Multinational finance journal : MF ; quarterly … 8 (2004) 1/2, pp. 73-114
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003595144
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Government ownership, informed trading, and private information
Borisova, Ginka; Yadav, Pradeep - 2015
We investigate the nature and extent of information asymmetry among traders in companies with government ownership. Consistent with a less transparent information environment, we find relatively less informed trading in the shares of firms with government presence, and specifically, fewer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334148
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State Ownership and Corporate Innovative Efficiency
Cao, Jerry - 2020
In this paper, we investigate the innovative efficiency of SOEs in China. Innovative efficiency refers to output of patents per dollar spending of R&D expenditure. The data indicate that minority SOEs are substantially more innovatively efficient than nonSOEs and majority SOEs. The relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835354
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The private sector advances in China : the evolving ownership structures of the largest companies in the Xi Jinping era
Huang, Tianlei; Véron, Nicolas - 2022
This paper documents recent structural changes in China's corporate landscape, based on company level data, providing a complementary perspective to that of official Chinese statistics. We classify China's largest companies by revenue since 2004 (based on Fortune Global 500 rankings), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184745
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Capital Structure and Regulation : Does Ownership Matter?
Bortolotti, Bernardo; Cambini, Carlo; Rondi, Laura; … - 2014
We construct a comprehensive panel data of 96 publicly traded European utilities over the period 1994-2005 in order to study the relationship between the capital structure of regulated firms, regulated prices, and investments, and examine if and how this interaction is affected by ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223408
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Partial Privatization and Incomplete Contracts - the Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered
Schmitz, Patrick W. - 2003
In this paper it is argued that privatization is not the only alternative to public ownership. Adopting the incomplete … contract approach, it is shown that partial privatization may well be the optimal ownership structure. While in the standard … privatization can be optimal since it mitigates the disadvantages of public ownership (no incentives to improve quality if the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089721