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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965542703321

Autore

Ueda Kenichi

Titolo

Banks and Labor as Stakeholders : : Impact on Economic Performance / / Kenichi Ueda, Stijn Claessens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

9786612841804

9781462341665

1462341667

9781452783383

1452783381

9781451870879

1451870876

9781282841802

1282841807

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (41 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/229

Altri autori (Persone)

ClaessensStijn

Disciplina

332.10973

Soggetti

Banks and banking - State supervision - United States

Working class - United States

Corporate governance - United States

Industrial productivity - United States

Banking

Banks and Banking

Banks and banking

Banks

Depository Institutions

Economic theory

Employment protection

Income economics

Labor Contracts

Labor economics

Labor Economics: General

Labor

Labour

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Production

Manpower policy

Micro Finance Institutions



Minimum wage

Minimum wages

Mortgages

Production growth

Production

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Related Literature; III. Data, Empirical Methodology and Regressions Results; A. Data; B. State-Level Regressions; C. State-Industry Level Benchmark Regressions; D. Robustness Checks; IV. Conclusions; Figures; 1a. The Adpotion of Financial Deregulation; 1b. The Adoption of Anti-Takeover Statutes; 1c. The Adpotion of Employment Protection; 2a. The Pattern of Financial Deregulation and Adoption of Employment Protection; 2b. The Pattern of Financial Deregulation and Adoption of Employment Protection; Tables; 1a. Correlations Among State-Level Institutional Change

1b. Correlations Among Industry-Level Characteristics1c. Averages and Standard Deviations of Main Variables; 2a. State Level Regressions-Gross State Product; 2b. State Level Regressions-Non-Financial Sector Gross State Product; 3. State-Indistry Level Regressions-Benchmark (Schooling); 4. State-Industry Level Regressions-Intangible/Fixed Assets; 5. State-Industry Level Regressions-Sales/Fixed Assets; 6a. State-Indistry Level Regressions-Panel GMM for AR(1) Specification; 6b. State-Indistry Level Regressions- Panel GMM for AR(2) Specification; References

Sommario/riassunto

Traditionally, the impacts of the rights of financial institutions and workers on corporate performance have been analyzed independently. Yet, theory clearly indicates that the combination of relative powers of different stakeholders affects a firm overall performance. Using U.S. state level and state-industry level data, we investigate how output growth is affected by bank branch deregulation and employment protection occurring over 1972-1993. We find that financial liberalization positively impact overall state growth but greater workers' rights affects it ambiguously. At the industry level, however, employment protection promotes those industries that are more knowledge intensive, while the effect of financial liberalization does not differ across industries that vary in external financing dependency. The results hold controlling for changes in shareholders' rights, which itself is not significant. The findings suggest that financial liberalization operates mostly through an efficiency channel, better reallocating resources across sectors, while employment protection creates higher incentives and encourages more sector-specific, human capital investments. Overall, the results show that the strength of stakeholders' protection affects performance through efficiency channels and provide support for a stakeholders' view of corporate governance.