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Does Ownership Structure Influence Firm Value? Evidence from India
Kumar, Jayesh - EconWPA - 2004
This paper examines the effect of ownership structure on the firm performance for an unbalanced panel of 2478 Indian corporate firms from 1994 to 2000. We examine the effect of interactions between corporate, foreign, institutional, and managerial ownership on firm performance. Using panel data...
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Book Review --Working with Private Sector Providers for Better Health Care: An Introductory Guide
Kumar, Deepak - EconWPA - 2005
Working with Private Sector Provider for Better Healthcare: An Introductory Guide aims to provide the most critical approach to develop strategies for working with Private Sector Participation (PSPs) for better healthcare. This Guide focuses specifically on those PSPs who operate on a for-profit...
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Jamaica’s Private Sector: A Strategy For Sustainable Hypercompetition Development
Jones, Peter W - EconWPA - 2005
In order for Jamaica to transition from a developed to developing country there needs to be developed in Jamaica a strong knowledge based economy. The literature speaks to four preconditions that lead to knowledge becoming an effective engine of growth. These are: · An economic and...
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Economics in a Family Way
Bergstrom, Theodore C. - EconWPA - 1995
of the family. The discussion references many papers from anthropology and biology. Because of the intimate connection … between the family and reproduction, it should not be surprising that there is much to be learned about the economics of the … family from the study of evolutionary biology. Given the increased prevalence in recent decades of unwed parenthood, divorce …
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A double gender-family inequality phenomenon in the international mobility of young researchers
Moguérou, Philippe - EconWPA - 2004
there differences among genders? Does “family” have an impact? Is the effect of family related variables similar among … internationally, especially in direction of the United States. The impact of the “family” on the probability of taking a postdoc …
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First Home Ownership
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
The terms of reference for the inquiry on First Home Ownership asked the Commission to evaluate the affordability and availability of housing for first home buyers. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December. In its final assessment, the Commission...
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Corporate Governance and Dividends Payout in India
Kumar, Jayesh - EconWPA - 2004
This paper investigates the association between the corporate governance and the dividends payout policy for a panel of Indian corporate firms over the period 1994-2000. We explain the differences in the dividend payout behavior of the firms with the help of firm’s financial structure,...
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Why Companies Go Private in Emerging Markets? Evidence from Poland
Kowalewski, Oskar; Jackowicz, Krzysztof - EconWPA - 2005
In recent years the number of going private transactions has sharply increased in emerging markets. The purpose of this study is to establish the financial characteristics of companies that have gone private using a dataset comprising of Polish companies. We use a probit model to distinguish the...
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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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Golden parachutes: Credible commitments or evidence of shirking?
Falaschetti, Dino - EconWPA - 2003
External agents are frequently characterized as necessary for efficiency in team production settings. At the same time, these agents must be constrained from opportunistically exercising their enforcement capabilities. I argue that collective action costs and formal institutions (e.g., golden...
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