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We investigate the link between employee ownership and price levels of stocks. Using a comprehensive sample of firms in the Société des Bourses Françaises (SBF) 120 Index from 2000 to 2007, we document a negative correlation between share price levels and employee ownership. This suggests...
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In the theoretical framework of corporate governance this article studies the efficiency of the control exerted by the …
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The study reported here focused on determining what methods financial analysts use for the valuation of Initial Public Offerings. The conclusion is that practices have moved with the times and that “real” considerations are more and more often used to obtain the market value of the firm. The...
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outside investors in a framework without and with debt. The paper highlights that debt is a governance variable, as it can … conflict between outside and controlling shareholders. It may self-regulate the two parties involved in a control contract. The …
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Although the resurgence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been described as the development of ‘markets for virtue’, little is known about the social construction of CSR markets. Prior works either focus on the economic potential of these markets or criticize the social...
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We examine the relation between cash holdings, quality of governance and financial constraints. We find that firms with … positive correlation that exists between governance quality measures and the degree of financial constraint faced by the firm …. We show that governance quality has no impact on cash holdings by financially unconstrained firms. It does, however, have …
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In this article, the author inverses the traditional approach (does corporate governance favour innovation …?) considering how innovation influences corporate governance in the European telecommunication sector. …
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Efficiency of financial markets is one of the most studied subjects in theoretical finance. Formalization of this idea is realised by the random walk model. Numerous tests have been developed to validate the hypothesis of identically and independently distributed innovations. But the results of...
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