On 29th - 30th March 2007, SUERF and the Central Bank of Cyprus jointly organized a Seminar: Corporate Governance in … paper based on a keynote address, Spyros G. Stavrinakis, Central Bank of Cyprus gives an overview of the legal framework for … corporate governance in financial institutions in Cyprus. According to a Central BankDirective issued in 2006, implementation of …

. Applying propensity score matching, we find that privatized banks tend to exhibit higher levels of risk-taking post-privatization …

This paper provides an overview of the possible linkages between state-owned banks, privatization, and banking sector … provide guidance to policymakers regarding bank privatization …

privatization (i.e., IPO) has different effects depending on the types of owners to whom it gives control in corporate governance …

Critics of privatization argue that poor labor force restructuring is a key concern and that governments should … owners after privatization. Our results show that adverse selection plagues retrenchment programs carried out by governments … before privatization. Controlling for endogeneity, several labor retrenchment policies yield a negative impacton net …