The Role of State and Foreign Owners in Corporate Risk-Taking: Evidence from Privatization
By Narjess Boubakri, J. Cosset, Walid Saffar. 2013
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Subfields: Accounting
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Citations in the corpus
- Do state and foreign ownership affect investment efficiency? Evidence from privatizations (2017, positive): “To analyze the impact of ownership type on investment efficiency, we follow recent privatization studies (e.g., Guedhami et al., 2009; Boubakri et al., 2013) and focus on two specific types of owners, namely, governments and foreign institutions.”
- Ownership Structure and Firm Performance: Evidence from Vietnamese Listed Firms (2016, background): “…behaviours) or other controlling shareholders (i.e. state © 2015 Flinders University and University of Adelaide and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd. owners) to alleviate agency cost, and encourage corporate risk-taking (Nguyen, 2012; Boubakri et al., 2013) that may enhance firm performance.”
- Corporate governance reform and risk-taking: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in an emerging market (2020, methodology): “Risk-Taking and Corporate Investment Proxies Following the literature, we use earnings-volatility as our prime variable to capture corporate risk-taking in our empirical testing (John et al., 2008; Faccio et al., 2011; Boubakri et al., 2013).”
- State Ownership, Socio-political Factors, and Labor Cost Stickiness (2018, background): “A key assumption of SOE/privatization literature is that SOEs’ behaviors and outcomes depend on various governance and socio-political factors (e.g. Ben-Nasr et al., 2012; Boubakri et al., 2013).”
- Bank Income Smoothing, Ownership Concentration and the Regulatory Environment (2014, positive): “We thus consider this index for our sample of both listed and non-listed firms, in line with previous studies (e.g. Faccio et al. 2011; Boubakri et al. 2013).”