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Corporate Governance and Investments in Scandinavia - ownership concentration and dual-class equity structure

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Eklund, Johan E. () (JIBS and CESIS)

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Juridical-political theories suggest that legal origin (La Porta et al. (1997)) and political factors (Roe (2003)) matters for firm performance. In Scandinavia there are a number of legal practices, with common political roots, that impinge on the distribution of corporate control, which accordingly may affect firm performance. This paper examines the return on investments and the effects of ownership concentration in a large sample of listed Scandinavian firms. As a performance measure marginal q developed by Mueller and Reardon (1993) is used. Marginal q measures the marginal return on capital relative its cost of capital. This is a more appropriate measure of performance than Tobin’s average q. The question of how ownership concentration affects managerial investment decisions is examined. A Scandinavian corporate governance feature is the wide spread use of vote-differentiation. How deviations from the one-share-one-vote principle affects this ownership-performance relationship is analyzed.

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Paper provided by Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies in its series Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation with number 98.

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Keywords: Investments; Marginal q; Corporate Governance; Ownership Concentration; Dual-Class Shares;

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C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data
G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
K22 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Corporation and Securities Law
L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance

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