Concentrated corporate ownership / edited by Randall Morck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morck, Randall.

Series:

Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)

A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate governance.

Industrial concentration.

Stock ownership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 all firms in most other countries. Given this, the lack of theoretical and empirical work on tightly held firms is surprising. What corporate governance problems arise in tightly held firms? How do these differ from corporate governance problems in widely held firms? How do control blocks arise and how are they maintained? How does concentrated ownership affect economic growth? How should we regulate tightly held firms? 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.

Contents:

Front matter

National Bureau of Economic Research

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success: Organizational Structure, Incentives, and Complementarities

2. Ownership Structures and the Decision to Go Public: Private versus Social Optimality

3. Some of the Causes and Consequences of Corporate Ownership Concentration in Canada

4. Corporations and Taxation: A Largely Private Matter?

5. Constraints on Large-Block Shareholders

6. Trust and Opportunism in Close Corporations

7. Waiting for the Omelette to Set: Match-Specific Assets and Minority Oppression

8. Adverse Selection and Gains to Controllers in Corporate Freezeouts

9. Emerging Market Business Groups, Foreign Intermediaries, and Corporate Governance

10. Stock Pyramids, Cross-Ownership, and Dual Class Equity: The Mechanisms and Agency Costs of Separating Control from Cash-Flow Rights

11. Inherited Wealth, Corporate Control, and Economic Growth The Canadian Disease?

Contributors

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611223854

9781281223852

1281223859

9780226536828

0226536823

OCLC:

290521149