This paper focuses on the relationship between corporate governance and corporate performance by initial public offerings (IPOs) of Kazakhstan state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the transition economies of Central Asia. It argues that privatization (i.e., IPO) has different effects depending on...

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our model predicts that underdeveloped democratic institutions that do not punish political corruption...

This study analyzes the impact of government support on the financial performance of Indonesia's state-owned enterprises (SOEs). I employ the ordinary least square (OLS) method with firm and year fixed effects in addition to clustered standard errors. The findings show that government support...

Using a sample of 8,232 firms from 81 countries, we investigate the effect of government ownership on financial constraint and the effect of financial constraint on corporate performance. In addition, we address the moderating role of country-level corruption on those two relationships. Results...

The past two decades have seen a rapid rise in large-scale, state-led transnational investment from countries as different as China, Norway and Russia. By bundling economic resources, these countries have entered global markets through massive state-led investments. This transformation of states...

Recent tectonic, global, economic and political shifts have spurred the emergence of new organizational forms such as sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), state-owned investment organizations without pension liabilities, arising primarily in emerging and frontier markets. Although scholars have begun...