Seminal theories of the firm posit that firm ownership is allocated to minimize contractual inefficiencies. Yet, it … remains unclear how much the optimal ownership choice affects firm performance in practice. This paper provides a first … quantification of the gains from optimal ownership within multinational firms, by exploiting a major liberalization of China's policy …

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for … ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations for developing and industrial countries. It is found that, while … ownership is strongly correlated with performance in developing countries, that ownership is not correlated with performance in …