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Is Texas' real estate boom a house of cards?
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Corporate finance in international perspective: legal and regulatory influences on financial system development
In the postwar period, systems of corporate finance and governance have emerged in the United States, Japan, and Germany that are dramatically different from one another. To date, there has been little focus on why. Stephen Prowse argues that differences in three aspects of the legal and regulatory environments in these countries are responsible. First, the severity of legal and regulatory restraints on financial institutions being "active" investors in firms. Second, the degree to which corporate securities markets are suppressed by regulation. Finally, the degree to which securities ...
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Alternative methods of corporate control in commercial banks
In this article, Stephen Prowse investigates how owners of commercial banks encourage management to follow value-maximizing policies. While the "corporate control mechanism" in nonfinancial firms is well documented, for the banking industry much less evidence is available. Moreover, unique factors in the operating environment of commercial banks may mean that their corporate control mechanism operates differently from that of nonfinancial firms. ; Prowse analyzes a sample of bank holding companies (BHCs) from 1987 to 1992 to determine how many underwent a change in corporate control by ...
Working Paper
The structure of corporate ownership in Japan
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Recent developments in the market for privately placed debt
Conference Paper
Alternative methods of corporate control in commercial banks
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Government deficits: good, bad or irrelevant?
Conference Paper
Equity capital and entrepreneurs