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The Italian and German banking systems shared similar characteristics early in the 1990s but have evolved in different directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both...
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The Italian and German banking systems shared similar characteristics early in the 1990s but have evolved in different directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989262
This article uses Israel's ongoing process of bank privatization to explore the link between privatization programs and … shareholders to widely held firms. The government may therefore prefer selling a control block in the firm undergoing privatization …
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The Italian and German banking systems shared similar characteristics early in the 1990s but have evolved in different directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149804
capital markets to dictate both and equity and debt instruments. Malawi's capital market is still at an infancy stage despite … is wholly owned by government and the central bank continues to roll out policies which might not be in line with the …
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study recommends better methodology of assisting them. Malawi capital market has not experienced any involuntary delisting … but there are serious gaps in the legislation and Malawi Stock Exchange Listings as the terminology is sparsely used and …
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Companies Act and relevant accounting standards. This is a case study of one of the listed companies on the Malawi Stock …
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The role of ownership in performance of financial institutions is under-examined yet remains a topical issue. Whilst ownership changes in the banking sector have been evaluated in several studies, the link with other sectors has not been a focus of in depth analysis. A controlled comparison of...
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In Romania, as in many Central and Eastern Europe countries, during the communist regime all the banks were owned by the state and their activities were circumscribed by rigid norms. After the communist regime had fallen, the state owned banks had to adapt to a competitive environment. The...
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This paper questions when and why state governments oppose (or support) privatization programs initiated by the central … government. It examines national privatization initiatives in the 1990s in India and Brazil in the fields of electricity and … benefits from privatization between the two levels of government. We find that reason #3, real conflict of interests, best …
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