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Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover : The Case of Ukraine

Muravyev, Alexander - 2009

The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to their performance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds statistically significant negative association between the past performance of firms measured by...

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Boards of Directors in Russian Publicly Traded Companies in 1998-2014 : Structure, Dynamics and Performance Effects

Muravyev, Alexander - 2016

This paper provides new evidence on the structure, dynamics and performance effects of corporate boards in publicly traded companies in Russia. It takes advantage of a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded in the RTS/MICEX/MOEX over...

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Gender Wage-Productivity Differentials and Global Integration in China

Dammert, Ana C. - 2013

structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by simultaneously estimating demand-side wage and productivity outcomes …

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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms : New Evidence

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2021

an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …

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Common Ownership of Competing Firms : Evidence from Australia

Leigh, Andrew; Triggs, Adam - 2022

We provide the first estimates of the extent of common ownership of competing firms in Australia. Combining data on market shares and substantial shareholdings, we calculate the impact of common ownership on effective market concentration. Among firms where we can identify at least one owner, 31...

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Firm Ownership and Rent Sharing

Monteiro, Natália Pimenta - 2010

We analyse – theoretically and empirically – how private versus public ownership of firms affects the degree of rent sharing between firms and their workers. Using a particularly rich linked employer-employee dataset from Portugal, covering a large number of corporate ownership changes...

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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities and...

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Does Local Business Ownership Insulate Cities from Economic Shocks?

Kolko, Jed - 2009

We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses ﾖ namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...

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Corruption, Networking and Foreign Ownership : Recent Evidence from CEE Countries

Pal, Sarmistha - 2013

The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...

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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany

Dill, Verena - 2014

Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the...

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