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State ownership and control in the Czech Republic
Kočenda, Evžen; Hanousek, Jan - 2009
We analyze the extent of the integrated control of the state over privatized firms during the post-privatization decade … bureaucracy are the most likely reasons behind our findings. -- state ownership ; control ; corporate performance ; privatization … (1995-2005) in the Czech Republic. During this period the integrated control potential of the state resembled a corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887481
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Development of ownership structure and its effects on performance: Czech firms from mass privatization
Kočenda, Evžen - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001654068
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Development of ownership structure and its effect on performance : czech firms from mass privatisation
Kočenda, Evžen - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013423742
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The financial and operating performance of privatized firms in Sweden
Tatahi, Motasam (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2009
privatized firms. First, accounting data prior to and after the privatization are employed to measure the operating performance … are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was … ; performance measure ; privatization ; ratio analysis ; event-study ; public and private relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796384
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What determines enterprise performance in Russia? : a survey of the evidence
Moers, Luc - 1999
regional competition isrelated with better performance. Secondly, privatization per se isnot. If there is one ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302132
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The causes and consequences of managerial change in Ukraine and the complementarity of reforms
Warzynski, Frederic - 2000
This paper analyses the causes of managerial change and the impact of different reforms on firm performance, using survey data from 300 Ukrainian firms. The main findings are: 1) ownership and competition are linked to managerial change: de novo firms but also privatised firms experienced less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755918
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Bank ownership and performance
Micco, Alejandro (contributor); Panizza, Ugo (contributor);  … - 2004
, although we do not find any effect on profitability of domestic banks. -- Banking ; Privatization ; Ownership ; Performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002824345
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Financing micro firms in Europe : an empirical analysis
Masiak, Christian; Block, Jörn; Moritz, Alexandra; … - 2017
The vast majority of firms in Europe are micro firms. Still, we know little about their financing patterns. Our paper aims to close this gap. Based on a large European firm-level data set, we find that micro firms differ in their financing patterns from small and medium-sized companies. Our...
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Causal inference by independent component analysis with applications to micro- and macroeconomic data
Moneta, Alessio; Entner, Doris; Hoyer, Patrik; Coad, … - 2010
Structural vector-autoregressive models are potentially very useful tools for guiding both macro- and microeconomic policy. In this paper, we present a recently developed method for exploiting non-Gaussianity in the data for estimating such models, with the aim of capturing the causal structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966642
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Distance to frontier and appropriate business strategy
Coad, Alex (contributor) - 2008
This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm's distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...
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