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This paper develops a new insight enabling the empirical study of media capture: minority shareholders of newspapers and readers face similar risks. Both are adversely affected when corrupt insiders use the newspaper for personal profit and receive invisible revenues. This means that relevant...
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shareholders) engage in corporate governance. In classical models, blockholders exert governance through direct intervention in a … governance by extracting private benefits of control or pursuing objectives other than firm value maximization. I highlight the …
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order to examine this question, we designed a behavioral measure of the population’s desire for better governance. A … countries with better governance, especially return migrants. …
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different ownership and governance structures. The empirical results indicate significant financial constraints even among the …
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This paper discusses proposed governance reforms of legal services markets. The model distinguishes between a status … quo position supported by a system of professionally enforced collective reputation and forms of governance based more …
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The focus of policy reform in developing countries has moved from getting prices right to getting institutions right, and accordingly countries are increasingly being advised to move towards "best-practice" institutions. This paper argues that appropriate institutions for developing countries...
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We analyse bidding incentives and present evidence on takeover premiums in Sweden’s mandatory bankruptcy auctions. The typical auction attracts multiple bidders and results in the firm being sold as a going concern. We model the incentive of the bankrupt firm’s main creditor (a bank) to...
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consumption of richer households by 6.1 to 9.2 percent. We also find suggestive evidence that governance matters in the …
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worldwide governance, and present recent empirical evidence. Focusing on defining and unbundling key governance components, such … and governance, in controlling corruption, and in improving institutional quality -- although there is clearly variance … across countries. Further, recent empirical research points to the private sector as influencing public governance, thereby …
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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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