Institutional Blockholders and Innovation
Bing Guo, Dennis C. Hutschenreiter, David Pérez-Castrillo, and Anna Toldrà-Simats show that the overall impact of blockholders on innovation may not be as positive as expected.
Topic Archive: Industrial Organization
Increasing Market Power through Common Ownership
Albert Banal-Estañol, Jo Seldeslachts, and Xavier Vives investigate these common-ownership incentives to disentangle the role of passive and active investors in shaping them, and their ultimate impact on market power.
Lifting women up: Do gender quotas help women advance their careers?
Gender diversity at the top of corporations has become a more and more ubiquitous concern in recent years. Many European countries have introduced some board quotas for the underrepresented gender in their regulation. Alexandra Fedorets and Anna Gibert study the case of gender quotas by gathering data of the largest 1,128 firms around the time Germany announced an introduction of a gender quota on corporate boards.
The anti-competitive effects of online sponsored search
Online marketing tools can give firms the opportunity to gain visibility but what impact do they have on competitiveness and as a result, the consumer?
