A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The determinants of corporate venture capital success: organizational structure, incentives, and complementarities -- Ownership structures and the decision to go public: private versus social optimality -- Some of the causes and consequences of corporate ownership concentration in Canada -- Corporations and taxation: a largely private matter? -- Constraints on large-block shareholders -- Trust and opportunism in close corporations -- Waiting for the omelette to set: match-specific assets and minority oppression -- Adverse selection and gains to controllers in corporate freezouts -- Emerging market business groups, foreign intermediaries, and corporate governance -- Stock pyramids, cross-ownership, and dual class equity: the mechanisms and agency costs of separating control from cash-flow rights -- Inherited wealth, corporate control, and economic growth: the Canadian disease?
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"Standard economic models assume that many small investors own firms. This is so in most large U.S. firms, but wealthy individuals or families generally hold controlling blocks in smaller U.S. firms and in virtually all firms in most other countries. Given this, the lack of theoretical and empirical work on tightly held firms in surprising." "Drawing together leading scholars from law, economics, and finance, this volume examines the economic and legal issues of concentrated ownership and their impact on a shifting global economy."--Jacket.
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Concentrated corporate ownership.
Corporate governance.
Industrial concentration.
Stock ownership.
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Concentration d'entreprises.
Gouvernement d'entreprise.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Corporate & Business History.