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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs : Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?

Tian, Lihui; Estrin, Saul - 2005

The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China?s newly privatized … large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both harm and benefit companies. We examine the …

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and corporate governance in China: evidence from firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2005

This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using … comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive … cash compensation (salary and bonus) for top executives with respect to shareholder value in China. In addition, sales …

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CEO turnover, firm performance and enterprise reform in China: evidence from new micro data

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2006

Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China's securities regulatory agency appears to be … shareholders have weaker turnover-performance link. Consistent with the law and finance approach to corporate governance and the …

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CEO Turnover, Firm Performance and Enterprise Reform in China: Evidence from New Micro Data

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China’s securities regulatory agency appears to be … shareholders have weaker turnover-performance link. Consistent with the "law and finance" approach to corporate governance and the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566546

Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence from Firms Listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using … comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive … cash compensation (salary and bonus) for top executives with respect to shareholder value in China. In addition, sales …

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Ownership or Performance: What Determines Board of Directors' Turnover in Italy?

Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno Maria - 2000

This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...

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Tournaments and managerial incentives in China's listed firms: new evidence

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2008

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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Ownership and Pay in Britain

Pendleton, Andrew; Bryson, Alex; Gospel, Howard - 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...

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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?

Tian, Lihui; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China’s newly privatized … large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both harm and benefit companies. We examine the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822452

Executive compensation, firm performance, and chaebols in Korea: evidence from new panel data

Kato, Takao; Kim, Woochan; Lee, Ju Ho - 2005

This paper provides the first rigorous econometric estimates on the pay-performance relations for executives of Korean firms with and without Chaebol affiliation. To do so, we have assembled for the first time panel data (that provide information not only on executive compensation and firm...

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