Who controls Allianz? Measuring the separation of dividend and control rights under cross-ownership among firms

Annals of Finance

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-103

  Dorofeenko, Victor ^a   Lang, Larry H P ^b   Ritzberger, Klaus ^a   Shorish, Jamsheed ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Austria)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Allianz; Control rights; Corporate governance; Cross ownership; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 36349012571     PISSN: 16142446     EISSN: 16142454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10436-006-0069-4     Document Type: Article

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