The study seeks to examine the effect of equity ownership structure on firm financial performance in South Korea. I focus on the role of two main dimensions of the ownership structure: Ownership concentration (i.e., the distribution of shares owned by majority shareholders) and identity of owners (especially, foreign investors and institutional investors). Using panel data for South Korea in 20...

the purposeof this studywas to analyzing factors that effecting on rangeland degradation. statistical population of this research consisted of whole farmer in pirtaj district (n= 1600); from that 120 farmer were selected as sample using cluster sampling. the main tool to collect data was a researcher made questionnaire that content validity of the questionnaire was approved, by a panel of exper...

purpose: document delivery scheme for the libraries of the ministry of science, research and technology was launched in 1999 due to currency budget crisis. the main purpose of this paper is to investigate how the above document delivery service was launched, preformed and finally stopped. method: the current study applied questionnaire and interview surveys for studying different aspects of the...

Abstract We exploit the large rise in relative performance awards United Kingdom over last two decades to investigate whether these contracts improve alignment between CEO pay and firm performance. first document that corporate governance appears be stronger when institutional ownership is greater. Then, using hand-collected data from annual reports on explicit contracts, we show (1) still resp...

This paper examines the relationship between firm performance and ownership structure for listed and OTC manufacturing firms in Taiwan. By classifying ownership into three categories (managerial owners, institutional owners and the control group), the study addresses two related empirical issues—the commonly examined piecewise and the Granger causality relationships between ownership and perfor...

C orporate governance structures in the wake of observed differences in firm ownership structures in developed markets and emerging market economies are distinct. In this paper, we examine the effect of an ownership structure of firms on the market reaction to corporate news flows in the context of emerging market economies like India. We observe the price and volume movements associ...

Abstract We hypothesise that societal norms cause institutional investors to discriminate against polluters. Consistent with this hypothesis, we document relatively lower ownership for the most polluting firms in United States. Institutional discrimination polluters increases over 1987–2018, line increasing environmental awareness. Institutions are primarily averse investments dioxin emitters. ...

investment institutions with substantial shareholdings in a firm have the resources and incentives to monitor and influence management decisions. whether the institutions actually monitor and exert pressure on managers is an empirical question.this study is designed to provide insights into the monitoring role of institutional investors by examining whether institutional ownership affects the i...

Object ownership is an approach to controlling aliasing in programming languages. Proposals for adding ownership to programming languages do not directly support type genericity. We present Featherweight Generic Ownership — the first system to unify ownership and type polymorphism. Our type system extends Featherweight Generic Java with locations to support ownership and confinement invariants,...