The question for the determinants and effects of the ownership concentration of firms is of central concern in the corporate governance literature. It has attracted significant attention in the last decades and has been frequently addressed by renown scholars in the corporate governance area....

Die Pflegenoten messen fast ausschließlich Struktur- und Prozessqualität. Aus diesem Grund liegt die Vermutung nahe, dass Größe (Synergieeffekte und Stichprobenvorteile), Trägerschaft (freigemeinnützige Träger mit besserer Personalausstattung und höherem Entgelt) sowie die regionale Lage...

Methods for analyzing and modeling count data time series are used in various fields of practice, and they are particularly relevant for applications in finance and economy. We consider the binomial autoregressive (AR(1)) model for count data processes with a first-order AR dependence structure...