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The price of media capture and the looting of newspapers in interwar France

Bignon, Vincent; Flandreau, Marc - 2012

This paper develops a new insight enabling the empirical study of media capture: minority shareholders of newspapers and readers face similar risks. Both are adversely affected when corrupt insiders use the newspaper for personal profit and receive invisible revenues. This means that relevant...

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Structures and Trends in German Banking

Koetter, Michael; Nestmann, Thorsten; Stolz, Stéphanie; … - 2004

In this paper, we investigate the claim that German banks are special compared to banks in other industrialised economies. We show that banks are of particular importance to the German economy?as financial intermediary, as lender to the corporate sector, and as part of the corporate governance...

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The marketability of bank assets and managerial rents: implications for financial stability

Fecht, Falko; Wagner, Wolf - 2007

Ongoing financial innovation and greater information availability increase the tradability of bank assets and reduce … banks' dependence on individual bank managers as private information in the lending process declines. In this paper we argue … bank managers and shareholders becomes less severe. Consequently, banks' capital structure needs to be less concerned with …

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Does corporate governance reform necessarily boost firm performance? Recent evidence from Russia

Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - 2012

This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...

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Corporate Governance und Unternehmenserfolg - Eine empirische Analyse des Zusammenhangs zwischen den Führungs-, Kontroll- und Anreizstrukturen und der Geschäftsentwicklung deutsche...

Steinbrecher, Johannes - 2016

Das internationale Bankensystem stand in den vergangenen Jahren im Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses. Bei der Diskussion möglicher Optionen zur Verbesserung der Finanzsystemstabilität rückt zunehmend die Corporate Governance in Banken in den Fokus. Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht widmet...

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Integrating with their feet: cross-border lending at the German-Austrian border

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Hainz, Christa - 2008

emphasizes the need for harmonizing bank regulation and supervision. We study the impact of cross-border lending in a theoretical …, differences in bank regulations may have speeded up the cross-border lending. …

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Bank Management between Shareholders and Regulators

Harm, Christian - 2002

This essay discusses the corporate governance of banks. Bank managers must balance competing demands from shareholders … creditors, and integrates bank regulation into the concept of debt governance. The empirical section surveys the extant …) and regulators (debt governance) can meaningfully coexist in their quest to guide and constrain bank managers. …

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Europe’s Banking Challenge: Reregulation without Refragmentation

Véron, Nicolas - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 4, pp. 51-59

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Wie ist das EU-Konzept zur Bankenunion zu bewerten?

Lautenschläger, Sabine; Gstädtner, Thomas; Steffen, Sascha - In: ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 01, pp. 3-13

gemacht. Nach Ansicht von Sabine Lautenschläger, Deutsche Bundesbank, braucht Europa Zeit, um eine europäische Bankenaufsicht …

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A primer on governance and performance in small and medium-sized enterprises

Yacuzzi, Enrique - 2005

This paper is a primer on corporate performance, corporate governance, and their interrelationships and measurement systems, with particular focus on Small and Medium- Sized Enterprises (SMEs). This is the first report of a larger on going research project. In the domain of performance...

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