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JOURNAL OF CORPORATE FINANCE
Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages 209-233Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1199(01)00020-7
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ownership structure; corporate performance; endogenous variable
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This paper investigates the relation between the ownership structure and the performance of corporations if ownership is made multi-dimensional and also is treated as an endogenous variable. To our knowledge, no prior study has treated the corporate control problem this way. We find no statistically significant relation between ownership structure and firm performance. This finding is consistent with the view that diffuse ownership, while it may exacerbate some agency problems, also yields compensating advantages that generally offset such problems. Consequently, for data that reflect market-mediated ownership structures, no systematic relation between ownership structure and firm performance is to be expected. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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