Management buy outs in East Germany: Assessing a carrier of hope
Gerhard Heimpold, Martin Junkernheinrich, Brigitte Loose
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 7,
1996
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Abridged version: Management buy outs in East Germany - Expert report for the BvS (Federal agency for special tasks required by the German reunification)
Franz Barjak, Gerhard Heimpold, Brigitte Loose, Robert Skopp, Martin Junkernheinrich
IWH-Sonderhefte,
S
1996
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Im Rahmen der Privatisierung des ostdeutschen Unternehmensbestandes haben Management Buy-Outs (MBOs) teilweise den Charakter eines aufbaupolitischen Hoffnungsträgers erlangt. Wie kaum eine Unternehmensgruppe sind sie in den letzten Jahren durch die empirische Wirtschaftsforschung begleitet worden. Angesichts der Bedeutung der MBOs für die Schaffung eines eigenständigen, in den neuen Bundesländern verankerten unternehmerischen Mittelstandes hat die Bundesanstalt für vereinigungsbedingte Sonderaufgaben (BvS) das Institut für Wirt-schaftsforschung Halle (IWH) im Sommer 1995 mit einer umfassenden Untersuchung zu diesen Unternehmen betraut.
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Phonebanking
Jan Bouckaert, Hans Degryse
European Economic Review,
No. 2,
1995
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In a two-stage game, we study under what conditions banks offer phonebanking (first stage). In the second stage, they are competitors in the market for deposits. Offering the phone option creates two opposing effects. The first is a demand effect as depositors strictly prefer to manage some of their financial transactions by phone. The second (strategic) effect is that competition is increased as transaction costs are lowered. Universal phonebanking prevails when the demand effect dominates the strategic effect. Specialization can occur in that one bank offers the phone option while the other does not.
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Management and Employee Buy-Outs in German Privatisation
Gerhard Heimpold, Brigitte Loose
OECD Centre for Co-Operation with the Economies in Transition: Trends and Policies in Privatisation. Vol. 1 No. 3. Special Feature. Management and Employee Buy-Outs in the Context of Privatisation,
1994
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Profit Shifting
Iftekhar Hasan, Panagiotis I. Karavitis, Pantelis Kazakis, Woon Sau Leung
European Accounting Review,
2099
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This paper examines the relation between corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance and tax–motivated income shifting. Using a profit–shifting measure estimated from multinational enterprises (MNEs) data, we find that parent firms with higher CSR scores shift significantly more profits to their low-tax foreign subsidiaries. Overall, our evidence suggests that MNEs engaging in CSR activities acquire legitimacy and moral capital that temper negative responses by stakeholders and thus have greater scope and chance to engage in unethical profit-shifting activities, consistent with the legitimacy theory.
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