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Development of Ownership Structure and its Effect on Performance: Czech Firms from Mass Privatization

Kocenda, Evzen - EconWPA - 2002

This paper works with a broad data sample of Czech voucher-privatized firms during 1996 - 1999. It analyzes the development of ownership structure and consequently its effect on a firm's performance Ownership concentration had been quite high in 1996 and steadily increased. The single largest...

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The Transfer of Control in British and German IPOs

Goergen, Marc - EconWPA - 1998

This paper analyses the evolution of ownership and control in German and UK IPOs. In a first stage we try to explain why the pre-IPO shareholders of some firms sell out whereas those of other firms do not. German IPOs are matched by size with UK IPOs to obtain a first sample and matched by...

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Ownership Structure and Corporate Firm Performance

Kumar, Jayesh - EconWPA - 2003

Corporate Governance deals with the issue, how suppliers of finance to corporations assure themselves of getting a …

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Ownership, Control and Corporate Performance after Large-Scale Privatization

Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen; Svejnar, Jan - EconWPA - 2004

We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large-scale privatization economy. Using specifications based on first-differences and unique instrumental variables, we find that few types of private ownership improve dynamic...

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TOWARDS MODERNIZATION OF THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN BULGARIA

Keremidchiev, Spartak - EconWPA - 2005

The paper aims at outlining the existing gaps in Bulgarian corporate governance compared to the standards and the state … of corporate governance in developed market economies. The current state of corporate governance, the degree of ownership … concentration as well as the strengths and weaknesses of corporate governance are examined for the fulfillment of this goal. On the …

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Share holding Pattern and Firm Performance

Kumar, Jayesh - EconWPA - 2004

Corporate Governance deals with the issue of how suppliers of finance to corporations assure themselves of getting a …

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Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?

Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

of governance standards; ii) in misgoverned settings, FDI firms may magnify the problems of state capture and procurement …

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