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The close link between the personal financial affairs of a small business owner and his or her firm has been noted in prior research. This article compares attitudes toward risk on the part of small business owners (SBOs) and non-small business owners (NSBOs). In addition, it compares the...
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This paper contains a review of issues pertaining to the valuation of privately held businesses, noting significant inconsistencies in the rationale and approaches taken in the valuation process. In addition to suggesting that appraisers stay with the "tried and true" rather than testing the...
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transform the levered return on equity into a unlevered return and empirically test on some 30 thousand high growth European …
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, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic … majority owners improve efficiency more than foreign majority owners when no minority shareholders are present, but (vi) the … opposite is true when minority shareholders hold a substantial fraction of the firm´s equity. In the analysis, we distinguish …
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In recent years the number of going private transactions has considerably increased in emerging markets. The purpose of this study is to define the financial characteristics of companies that have gone private using a dataset comprising Polish companies. By applying a probit model we were able...
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This paper presents theory and evidence showing that institutional reforms in developing countries can effectively expand their product varieties in export. Our model demonstrates that relaxing foreign ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to...
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We develop a model in which multinational investors decide about the modes of organization, the locations of production, and the markets to be served. Foreign investments are driven by market-seeking and cost-reducing motives. We further assume that investors face costs of control that vary...
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types of political risk, like expropriation, corruption and confiscatory taxation, and In our theoretical analysis we find …
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