. We review the main mechanisms of corporate governance in the country and relate them to firms’ ownership structures …

We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large … that few types of private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic …) ownership improves some measures of performance relative to state ownership. Foreign investors engage in strategic restructuring …

This article analyses the cost of ownership in microfinance organizations. We specifically compare the ownership … SHFs. Based on an extension of Hansmann’s (1996) economic theory of ownership we propose that cost variables related to … ownership favor SHFs. We conclude that in severe imperfect markets, where most microfinance organizations operate, NPOs and …

three relevant firm attributes: investment opportunities, external financing, and ownership structure. Using firm …

benefits, and can these tradeoffs predict ownership type? To frame the comparison of NGOs and SHFs we make use of Schreiner … rejected. SHFs’ benefit in scale and scope seems not related to ownership, but to legal constraints impeding NGOs to mobilize … is higher in NGOs. We conclude that ownership doesn’t influence the performance of microfinance organizations. Our …

leverage decisions, dividend payout policies and the ownership structure on the firm market value when companies either face or … the relevance of the ownership structure by showing how ownership concentration, managers ownership proportion and some …

We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large … private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic) ownership improves … some measures of performance relative to state ownership. Foreign investors engage in strategic restructuring by increasing …

orientation and the focus is on the emergence of a separation of ownership and control, characterised by widely dispersed share … separation of ownership and control becomes a central feature of a country's corporate governance system. Instead, alternative …The corporate world today subdivides into rival systems of dispersed and concentrated ownership, with different …

We analyze the effects of different types and concentration of ownership on performance using a population of firms in … variables show that contrary to conventional wisdom, the effects of privatization and different types of ownership are limited … and many types of private owners do not generate performance that is different from that of firms with state ownership …

characteristics does the Swedish banking sector have? Issues related to corporate governance such as ownership structure, board of … directors and control-enhancing mechanisms will be studied. The Swedish banking law, how Swedish banks handled the financial …