This paper explores the relationship between ownership structure and cost of capital. Prior studies have established links between ownership structure, firm performance and cost of capital but their results are mixed and inconclusive. As ownership structure is one of the important issues faced...

Banks play a role in the corporate governance of firms as well as acting as debt financiers around the world. Universal banks can have control over borrowing firms by representation on the board of directors or by holding shares through direct stakes or institutional holdings. We investigate the...

Megamerger sind seit Beginn der 90er Jahre zu einer wichtigen Strategie von international agierenden Medienunternehmen geworden. Ein Höhepunkt dieser Entwicklung ist der Merger der amerikanischen Unternehmen America Online und Time Warner im Jahr 2001 - zum damaligen Zeitpunkt der zweitgrößte...

Bank monitoring, firm performance, and top management turnover in Japan / Christopher W. Anderson, Terry L. Campbell, Narayanan Jayaraman, Gershon N. Mandelker -- Ownership structure and shareholder voting on board structure changes / Teresa A. John, Gopala K. Vasudevan -- Did earnings...

U.S. regulators and Congress gave an increased level of scrutiny to recently approved international mergers involving a U.S. telecommunications firm merging with a company in which a foreign government owns a controlling interest. A foreign government that is friendly today has the potential to...