2008
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhn077
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Government Control of Privatized Firms

Abstract: We study the change in government control of privatized firms in OECD countries. Results indicate that governments typically transfer ownership rights without relinquishing proportional control. Control is commonly retained by leveraging state investments through pyramids, dualclass shares, and golden shares. Indeed, at the end of 2000, after the largest privatization wave in history, governments retain control of 62.4% of privatized firms. In civil law countries, governments tend to retain large ownership pos… Show more

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“…7 Bortolotti and Faccio (2009) point out the importance of ownership for the relationship between regulators and regulated firms incentives to invest and for their financial decisions. Bortolotti et al (2011) study the effect of ownership and regulatory independence on the interaction between capital structure and regulated prices.…”
Section: Literature Review and Two Hypothesesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…7 Bortolotti and Faccio (2009) point out the importance of ownership for the relationship between regulators and regulated firms incentives to invest and for their financial decisions. Bortolotti et al (2011) study the effect of ownership and regulatory independence on the interaction between capital structure and regulated prices.…”
Section: Literature Review and Two Hypothesesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…V podobném duchu jako v detailnějších studiích Hanousek, Kočenda a Svejnar (2007), Bortolotti a Faccio (2004) a Grosfeld a Tressel (2002) budeme analyzovat efekty na specifi ckých úrovních státní kontroly a porovnávat je se soukromými vlastníky. Naším cílem je analyzovat dopady státní kontroly na výkonnost fi rem a přesněji identifi kovat, jak daná specifi cká úroveň státní kontroly ovlivňuje výkonnost sledovaných fi rem.…”
Section: Efekt Státní Kontroly Na Výkonnost Fi Remunclassified
“…We 10 employ a continuous variable constructed by Bortolotti and Faccio (2009), which uses the weakest link approach to measure the state's ultimate control rights (UCR).…”
Section: The Datasetmentioning
confidence: 99%