Foreign ownership of banks in Vietnam refers to the participation and by foreign entities country's financial sector. Over years, has gradually opened up its banking industry investors as part broader economic reforms efforts integrate with global economy. was initially restricted, but government implemented various measures encourage investment This balanced approach aims harness benefits whil...

Using a Zero-Inflated Poisson (ZIP) model, we examine the effects of nonemployee director ownership and director plan adoption on the firms’ acquisition activity. We hypothesize that the firms’ acquisition activity increases with directors’ ownership as the directors’ incentives become more aligned with those of the shareholders, and they become less risk-averse. But at higher levels of ownersh...

Compensation of executives by means of equity has long been seen as a means to tie executives' income to company performance, and thus as a solution to the principal-agent dilemma created by the separation of ownership and management in publicly owned companies. The overwhelming part of such equity compensation is currently provided in the form of stock-options. Recent events have however reviv...

The article analyzes problems of improving the management systems of the ownership risks in the conditions of the transformation of the Russian economy. Among the main sources of threats business owners should highlight is the inefficiency of the implementation of business models and interaction with hired managers. In this context, it is particularly important to analyze the relationship of bu...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether dog ownership is associated with lower risk of childhood obesity. METHODS Cross-sectional study of 7,759 children at age 7 years in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) in the UK. In addition, longitudinal analyses were conducted between age 7 and 9 years. BMI at age 7 and 9 years was calculated from clinic-measured weight and height and st...

BACKGROUND Pet ownership is thought to have health benefits, but not all scientific explorations have been founded on proper applications of representative samples or statistically correct methodologies. Databanks have been too small for proper statistical analyses; or, instead of a random sample, participation has been voluntary. The direction of causality has been evaluated incorrectly or con...

This paper provides an overview of current U.S. practices and research findings concerning key consequences of executive ownership and stock option grants. Logic and some empirical findings suggest that the consequences of the level of executive ownership and the size of stock option grants have non-monotic relationships to firm performance. The size of option grants now typical in the U.S. is ...

BACKGROUND We focused on human-animal interaction (HAI) as an important aspect of social functioning at the individual level, framing this emerging field from a public health perspective. METHODS Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) 2012 HAI module, we describe the characteristics of pet ownership in a population of older adults, and examine the relation between pet ownership...