The Law and Economics of Self-Dealing

By Simeon Djankov, R. La Porta, Florencio Lopez‐de‐Silanes, A. Shleifer. 2008

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Subfields: Accounting, Sociology and Political Science

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Why Are U.S. Stocks More Volatile (2012, neutral): “Revised index as described in Djankov et al (2008).”
Judicial Discretion in Corporate Bankruptcy (2010, positive): “This parameter proxies for environmental features such as the extent of violations of absolute priority (Franks and Torous 1989), private benefits of control (Aghion and Bolton 1992) or even tunneling (Djankov et al. 2008), especially in developing countries.”
Large Shareholder Diversification and Corporate Risk-Taking (2010, neutral): “Mara Faccio1, Maria-Teresa Marchica2 and Roberto Mura2”
Business group affiliation, ownership structure, and the cost of debt (2013, background): “Third, many Korean firms belong to business groups known as chaebols, playing an important role in the economy.2 A chaebol's ownership is highly concentrated and the potential for wealth expropriation is high because of the country's weak legal protection (Djankov et al., 2008).”
Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing (2011, positive): “Holding ownership structure constant, better investor protection reduces private benefits of control and therefore reduces tunneling incentives (Djankov et al., 2008).”
The Resilient Family Firm: Stakeholder Outcomes and Institutional Effects (2015, positive): “© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd 173 Volume 23 Number 3 ay 2015M laws were obtained from Kaufmann et al. (2009), Djankov et al. (2008), and Botero et al. (2004).”
Do Local Analysts Know More? A Cross-Country Study of the Performance of Local Analysts and Foreign Analysts (2008, positive): “Froot, O’Connell, and Seasholes (2001) and Froot and Ramadorai (2001) use flow data to show that foreign investors have some ability to predict returns.”