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Family Ownership, Workplace Closure and the Recession
Bryson, Alex - 2016
Using nationally representative Norwegian data we show family-owned workplaces are less likely to close than observationally similar non-family-owned workplaces. But this changed during the Crisis when the family businesses' closure hazard soared. This hike in 2009 was not related to performance...
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The Gender Composition of Corporate Boards and Firm Performance : Evidence from Russia
Garanina, Tatiana - 2019
This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868825
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156404
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Ownership and Pay in Britain
Pendleton, Andrew - 2015
Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is linked to ownership dispersion. Using linked workplace-worker data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2011, we find average hourly pay is higher in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016270
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Does Financial Deregulation Boost Top Incomes? Evidence from the Big Bang
Tanndal, Julia - 2016
constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations in the United Kingdom in 1986 and Japan 1997 …-1999 increased the share of pre-tax incomes going to top earners by over 20 percent in the U.K. and over 10 percent in Japan. The … in Japan. The findings are robust to placebo tests, alternative ways to construct synthetic controls and scrutiny of post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000060
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Does Employee Stock Ownership Work? Evidence from Publicly-Traded Firms in Japan
Kato, Takao - 2018
capitalism. In so doing, we take advantage of our access to new panel data on Japanese ESO plans for a highly representative … sample of publicly-traded firms in Japan (covering more than 75% of all firms listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange) over 1989 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914331
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Working in Family Firms : Less Paid But More Secure? Evidence from French Matched Employer-Employee Data
Bassanini, Andrea - 2011
We study compensation packages in family and non-family firms. Using matched employer-employee data for a representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find that part of this wage gap is due to differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122406
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977060
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Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
Domadenik, Polona - 2014
In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our model predicts that underdeveloped democratic institutions that do not punish political corruption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050620
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CEO and Board Characteristics as Determinants of Private Benefits of Control : Evidence from the Russian Stock Exchange
Berezinets, Irina - 2012
This paper investigates whether and how various characteristics of CEOs and corporate boards are related to the severity of corporate governance problems within firms. The latter is proxied by private benefits of control, which we measure for dual class stock firms using the voting premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112769