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Market competition or family ties : which prevails on Italian CEOs pay?

Graziano, Clara; Rondi, Laura - 2015 - This draft: June 8, 2015

The paper analyzes the interplay of product market competition and governance on CEO compensation in Italian listed firms from 2000 to 2011 and tests the impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis on pay-performance sensitivity. We argue that important differences both in the level of compensation...

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Ownership concentration and share valuation : evidence from Germany

Edwards, Jeremy S. S.; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 1999

Concentrated ownership of large listed companies is widespread throughout the world, and Germany is typical in this respect. This paper proposes a method of distinguishing empirically between the beneficial and harmful effects of ownership concentration, and applies it to German data. The...

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Management practices and establishment performance under non-union workplace representation

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Bellmann, Lutz - 2020

This paper brings together two factors deemed important correlates of firm performance: advanced management practices and works councils. The country sample comprises nations where workplace representation is via a works council. The Management Questionnaire of the 2013 European Company Survey...

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Corporate governance reforms, interlocking directorship networks and company value in Italy (1998-2007)

Drago, Carlo; Millo, Francesco; Ricciuti, Roberto; … - 2011

In this paper we contribute to the literature on the structure of interlocking directorship networks and to the literature on the relationship between corporate governance and performance. We use a unique dataset made of corporate governance variables related to the board size and interlocking...

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Firm performance, financial institutions and corporate governance in the Netherlands

Chirinko, Robert S.; Ees, Hans van; Garretsen, Harry; … - 1999

is a direct positive link between share o wnership by banks and the firms` short-term bank loans, which indicates the …

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Can integrity replace institutions? : theory and evidence

Aharonovitz, Gilad D.; Skuza, Nathan; Fahs, Faysal - 2009

) trust, or (3) integrity, foster economic growth. We construct data of economic performance of social groups in Lebanon …'s predictions. Policy implications are discussed. -- economic development ; institutions ; integrity ; Lebanon ; social norms …

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Does religious diversity improve trust and performance? : evidence from Lebanon

Canaan, Serena; Deeb, Antoine; Mouganie, Pierre - 2022

individuals' behavior towards one another is scarce. We examine this question in the setting of a four-year university in Lebanon …

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Trust and workplace performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2019

This paper explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance. The outcome indicators are management's assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially measured using the individual survey respondent's...

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Demographic change and bank profitability : empirical evidence from German savings banks

Berlemann, Michael; Oestmann, Marco; Thum, Marcel - 2010

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Connections and performance in bankers' turnover : better wed over the mixen than over the moor

Battistin, Erich (contributor); Graziano, Clara (contributor) - 2008

survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections …, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank and manager characteristics by exploiting longitudinal information on bank …-manager appointments. We measure the extent? of managers' local connections by the distance between the province of the bank's headquarters …

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