Is ownership really endogenous?

Klaus Gugler, Jürgen Weigand

Applied Economics Letters · 2003 · 74 citations · 7 references

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Abstract

For a large panel of US firms it is found that managerial ownership is (econometrically) endogenous as Himmelberg et al. (Journal of Financial Economics, 53, 353-384, 1999) found. The largest shareholder, however, affects performance exogenously. This also holds for German firms.

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