This paper estimates the determinants of the contributions made by top executives to their firm's Political Action Committee (PAC). We find that executive's personal PAC contributions (proxy for the interest of the firm) are positively related to their shareholdings, income and option holdings...

This paper estimates the determinants of the contributions made by top executives to their firm's Political Action Committee (PAC). We find that executive's personal PAC contributions (proxy for the interest of the firm) are positively related to their shareholdings, income and option holdings...

This paper examines the relationships between various owner, firm, and industry characteristics of private-sector Hungarian firms and their difficulty in obtaining bank loans in 1991. We identify several factors that are related to the difficulty firms face in obtaining bank loans including the...