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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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Das internationale Bankensystem stand in den vergangenen Jahren im Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses. Bei der Diskussion möglicher Optionen zur Verbesserung der Finanzsystemstabilität rückt zunehmend die Corporate Governance in Banken in den Fokus. Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht widmet...
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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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The question of whether the CEO should also serve as chairman of the board is one of the most hotly debated issues in the recent corporate governance discussion. While agencytheoretic arguments advocate a separation of decision and control functions, the empirical evidence focusing on U.S....
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