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Corporate governance in financial institutions

Stavrinakis, Spyros G.; Harm, Christian; Llewellyn, David T. - Seminar: Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions …; … - 2007

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Intra-industry effects of privatization announcements : evidence from developed and developing countries

Otchere, Isaac - 2002

We examine the stock price reaction of rival firms to privatization announcements to infer information about industry … effects of privatization. We find that the rival firms reacted negatively to privatization announcements, thus suggesting that … find that the adverse reaction of the rival firms to privatization announcements in developing countries is stronger than …

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The "privatization" of municipal debt

Ivanov, Ivan T.; Zimmermann, Tom - 2024

We study the determinants of local governments' reliance on bank loans using granular data from the Federal Reserve. Governments that are larger, riskier, rely on historically stable revenue sources, or have higher spending relative to revenues are more likely to borrow from banks. Declines in...

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The "privatization" of municipal debt

Ivanov, Ivan T.; Zimmermann, Tom - 2023

We study the determinants of local governments' reliance on bank loans using granular data from the Federal Reserve. Governments that are larger, rely on stable revenue sources, or have higher spending relative to revenues are more likely to borrow from banks. About a third of governments in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335610

Postprivatization corporate governance : the role of ownership structure and investor protection

Boubakri, Narjess; Cosset, Jean-Claude; Guedhami, Omrane - 2003

We investigate the role of ownership structure and investor protection in postprivatization corporate governance. We find that the government relinquishes control over time, mainly to the benefit of local institutions and foreign investors. We also show that private ownership tends to...

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The effects of privatization and corporate governance of soes in transition economy : the case of Kazakhstan

Lee, Keun Jung - 2020

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

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The Balkan and Baltic experience of financial services privatization

Consigilio, John - 2014

The financial services sectors of Romania and Estonia moved towards privatization in sharply contrasting manners. For a … paper; few steps were made towards its fulfillment. By contrast, Estonia's experience of privatization was generally a …

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Contracting out placement services in Germany : Is assignment to private providers effective for needy job-seekers?

Bernhard, Sarah; Wolff, Joachim - 2008

Zentrales Ziel der Einbindung privater Vermittlungsdienstleister - über so genannte Beauftragungen Dritter mit der gesamten Vermittlung - ist die Einführung von Wettbewerb. Über den Marktmechanismus soll sich die Effektivität der Arbeitsvermittlung erhöhen. Die Studie untersucht die...

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Private debt, public debt, and capital misallocation

Alimov, Behzod - 2019

Does finance facilitate efficient allocation of resources? Our aim in this paper is to find out whether increases in private and public indebtedness affect capital misallocation, which is measured as the dispersion in the return to capital across firms in different industries. For this, we use a...

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Regulatory independence and political interference : evidence from EU mixed-ownership utilities’ investment and debt

Cambini, Carlo; Rondi, Laura - 2010 - This draft: 11 May 2010

This paper examines the investment and financial decisions of a sample of 92 EU regulated utilities, taking into account key institutional features of EU public utilities, such as: a) regulation by agencies with various degrees of independence; b) partial ownership of the state in the regulated...

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