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in governance. Its significance has broadened geographically as well as across different sectors. It has been observed … existing literature on transparency in finance and governance, indicates remaining knowledge gaps, and offers some hypothesis … adequate enforcement. The last section elaborates on the concomitant link between financial markets and governance, discussing …
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Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...
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Côte d'Ivoire is the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009383568
Côte d'Ivoire is the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294829
This paper surveys extant finance literature pertaining regulatory implications for corporate governance effectiveness …. It reveals that a weak market mechanism coupled with frail regulatory governance could potentially delimit corporate … governance effectiveness through worsening information asymmetry environment as well as degenerating investor confidence …
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Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in the world's most important financial markets have been falling for the past decade. This has not been a gentle decline, but a collapse that preceded the 2008 financial crisis and shows no sign of abating. Public companies have been an integral part of developed...
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The purpose of this paper is to review and summarize earlier studies analyzing the determinants of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We primarily describe the motives of cross-border acquisitions and present the market performance for corporate control transactions over the period...
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This paper deals with the evolution of corporate governance institutions that were imported into Russia in the 1990s … interests of various stakeholders prompts a hypo-thesis as to why initial rejection of new institutions of corporate governance … governance’. We argue that in Russia imported institutions tend to mutate, i.e. to work differently than in the eco-nomic systems …
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We investigate changes to the ownership and control of East Asia's largest companies in 1996 and 2008. Newly compiled data for 1,386 publicly traded companies at the end of 2008 is supplemented with existing data on 1,606 publicly traded companies at the end of 1996. Two main findings stand out....
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We examine the nature of state blockholding across publicly listed firms in East Asia by assembling a unique dataset spanning 16 years and 9 economies. Our newly compiled data identifies ultimate owners for each firm annually between 1997 and 2012, totaling 2,984 firm-year observations. Three...
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