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Enterprise Restructuring and Firm Performance: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Enterprises in Jiangsu Province

Dong, Xiao-Yuan; Putterman, Louis; Unel, Bulent - 2004

principal targets of reforms, among SOEs, and better performing enterprises being more likely to be picked for privatization … better than those in which the majority of shares are owned privately. We find mixed evidence for the TVEs: privatization had …

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Cross-Listing, Close Bank-Firm Relationships and Ownership Structure: Empirical Evidence on Corporate Governance Mechanisms

Korczak, Adriana - 2006

Corporate governance aims to reduce expropriation of investors by managers. This thesis identifies and empirically examines three corporate governance mechanisms: cross-listing in the United States, close bank-firm relationships in Germany and corporate ownership structure in an emerging market....

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Ownership, control and firm performance in Europe

Tong, Guanqun - 2010

This study is motivated by one of the most prevalent properties of modern corporations: separation of ownership and control. Ownership concentration has been one of the corporate governance mechanisms to solve the agency problem between shareholders and management. Existing literature is mainly...

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Ownership concentration & firm performance: Evidence from an emerging market

Grosfeld, Irena - 2006

The initial view of the advantages of ownership concentration in joint stock companies was determined by the concern about the opportunistic managerial behavior. The growing importance of knowledge and human capital in the operation of firms shifts the focus of concern: excessive ownership...

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Ownership, Control and Corporate Performance After Large-Scale Privatization

Hanousek, Jan; Ko?enda, Evžen; Svejnar, Jan - 2004

-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). Using specifications based on first-differences and unique instrumental variables, we find … that few types of private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic …

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Liberalization, Corporate Governance, and the Performance of Newly Privatized Firms

Boubakri, Narjess; Cosset, Jean-Claude; Guedhami, Omrance - 2001

This paper seeks to provide an answer to the following question, namely when and how does privatization work? Using a … reforms and environment have an effect on the changes in operating performance. For example, we find that privatization yields … post-privatization performance changes. In particular, economic growth, control relinquishment by the government and …

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Aufsichtsräte deutscher Aktiengesellschaften: Zusammensetzung, Interventionsaktivitäten, Performance

Vetter, Karin - 2011

Den Aufsichtsräten innerhalb des deutschen Corporate Governance Systems ist in den letzten Jahren erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit zugekommen. Es wurden Empfehlungen und gesetzliche Vorschriften formuliert, die die Zusammensetzung des Aufsichtsratsgremiums sowie dessen Tätigkeiten betreffen. Diesem...

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Zur Rolle der Printmedien bei der Steuerung und ?berwachung von Unternehmen. Eine Analyse der Berichterstattung ?ber die Einhaltung der Grunds?tze des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex.

Schmid, Christoph - 2006

Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Feststellung, dass sich die ?konomische Theorie trotz der mehr als 160j?hrigen Geschichte gewerbsm??iger medialer Berichterstattung ?ber das Geschehen rund um M?rkte und Unternehmen lange Zeit kaum mit den Massenmedien besch?ftigt hat. Dabei kann...

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Disclosure of executive remuneration in large banks

Schott, Max - 2008

The first part of this thesis analyzes and quantifies the magnitude of executive remuneration disclosure of the worlds 245 largest exchange-listed banks, using annual reports as the primary source of information, and the diverse disclosure rules in the 31 countries in which these banks are...

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Disziplinierung von Marktmacht durch Privatisierung von Schieneninfrastruktur - Privatisierungsmodelle und deren Bewertung

K?hnberg, Dany - 2009

Privatisierung von Schieneninfrastruktur zusammengefasst. …

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