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Understanding The Choice Between Public And Private Equity Financing Of Early Stage Companies: A Comment On Barry And Turki, Ronald J. Gilson
Understanding The Choice Between Public And Private Equity Financing Of Early Stage Companies: A Comment On Barry And Turki, Ronald J. Gilson
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This Comment considers the results of Barry and Turki's research data that indicates that investments perform differently depending on whether innovation is financed by private or public equity investment. The Comment posits two hypotheses for the differential performance. The first highlights ex ante differences between private and public subsamples, that is that the financing choice separates good prospects from bad. The second hypothesis focuses on ex post differences in performance that results from differences in governance structure and incentives created by the structure of public and private equity investment. The ex ante separation hypothesis and the ex post performance hypothesis …
Deutsche Telekom, German Corporate Governance, And The Transition Costs Of Capitalism, Jeffrey N. Gordon
Deutsche Telekom, German Corporate Governance, And The Transition Costs Of Capitalism, Jeffrey N. Gordon
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In November 1996, Deutsche Telekom AG, the government-owned German telephone company, sold common stock representing approximately 25 percent of the company in a global stock offering that raised approximately DM 20 billion ($13 billion), the largest equity offering ever in Europe. In selling off this equity stake, the German government (i.e., the Federal Republic) had a number of motives. First, the sale was an important step in converting a government-run telephone monopoly into a nimble competitor in the emerging European and world telecommunications market. In anticipation of a fully competitive European telecommunications regime in 1998, Deutsche Telekom ("DT") had been …
Reflections On The Papers Presented By Weiler, Goebel, And Meyers & Levie, George A. Bermann
Reflections On The Papers Presented By Weiler, Goebel, And Meyers & Levie, George A. Bermann
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The preceding papers amply demonstrate that an important step in the progressive integration of the European Union can be a compelling one without being an easy one. The transition to economic and monetary union (EMU) in Europe is precisely such a step. In this brief comment, I hope merely to show that, however powerful may be the case for economic and monetary union, passage to it is both generating institutional misgivings and entailing what could be institutional mistakes.
I begin with the case for economic and monetary union, which I consider to be a very strong one indeed. Not many …