Studies of the incentives behind the expropriation of minority shareholders of publicly listed firms by their controlling shareholders focus on the publicly listed firm's performance or characteristics and treat the controlling shareholder as a black box. In this paper, we examine when and why...

CEOs of public (listed) firms earn more than their counterparts in similar private (unlisted) firms. This can either be because rent extraction is easier in public firms than in private firms, or because managing a public firm involves more legal and institutional responsibilities than managing...