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Ownership Concentration and Corporate Performance on the Budapest Stock Exchange: do too many cooks spoil the goulash?
Author(s) -
Earle John S.,
Kucsera Csaba,
Telegdy Álmos
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
corporate governance: an international review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.866
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1467-8683
pISSN - 0964-8410
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2005.00420.x
Subject(s) - profitability index , stock exchange , panel data , stock (firearms) , monetary economics , marginal cost , econometrics , economics , business , finance , microeconomics , geography , archaeology
We examine the impact of ownership concentration on firm performance using panel data for firms listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange, where ownership tends to be highly concentrated and frequently involves multiple blocks. Fixed‐effects estimates imply that the size of the largest block increases profitability and efficiency strongly and monotonically, but the effects of total blockholdings are much smaller and statistically insignificant. Controlling for the size of the largest block, point estimates of the marginal effects of additional blocks are negative. The results suggest that the marginal costs of concentration may outweigh the benefits when the increased concentration involves “too many cooks”.