OECD Corporate Governance Working Papers

ISSN :
2223-0939 (online)
DOI :
10.1787/22230939
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OECD Corporate Governance Working Papers provide timely analysis and information on national and international corporate governance issues and developments, including state ownership and privatisation policies. The working paper series is designed to make select studies by the OECD Corporate Governance Committee, OECD staff members and outside consultants available to a broad audience.
 
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  N° 6   18 Jan 2013 Balancing Commercial and Non-Commercial Priorities of State-Owned Enterprises
Hans Christiansen
The overarching question for the government owners of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is why these companies need to be owned by the state. The OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises provides a "blueprint" for the corporatisation and commercialisation of such...
  N° 7   18 Jan 2013 Beneficial Ownership and Control
Erik P.M. Vermeulen
Investor confidence in financial markets depends in large part on the existence of an accurate disclosure regime that provides transparency in the beneficial ownership and control structures of publicly listed companies. This is particularly true for corporate governance systems that are...
  N° 1   01 May 2011 Competitive Neutrality and State-Owned Enterprises
Antonio Capobianco, Hans Christiansen
Competitive neutrality implies that no business entity is advantaged (or disadvantaged) solely because of its ownership. The Paper argues that far from all SOEs have the opportunity or the incentives to act in an anti-competitive way, and a trend in recent decades toward more fully corporatised...
  N° 4   01 Aug 2011 Competitive Neutrality and State-Owned Enterprises in Australia
Matthew Rennie, Fiona Lindsay
This working paper provides a comprehensive overview of the competitive neutrality framework of the Australian Commonwealth as well as individual States. It reviews the history behind the framework and provides examples of cases brought before the respective complaints handling offices....
  N° 2   01 May 2011 Enhancing the Role of the Boards of Directors of State-Owned Enterprises
W. Richard Frederick
This Working Paper summarises the main findings of an interview exercise that was conducted with the Chairs and other key board members in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) owned by OECD member governments. The work was part of an ongoing exercise in developing OECD best practices for organising...
  N° 3   01 Aug 2011 The Exercise of Shareholder Rights
Paul Hewitt
The scope of this research is to examine the degree to which investors use their share voting rights to register their concerns with companies on corporate issues. Analysis has been hindered by poor disclosure by companies of turnout figures and more nuanced reporting of resolution outcomes...
  N° 5   01 Aug 2011 The Size and Composition of the SOE Sector in OECD Countries
Hans Christiansen
This working paper summarises the main findings of a data collection exercise documenting the size of the national state-owned enterprise (SOE) sectors in OECD countries (in terms of number, employment and economic value of enterprises), and provides a breakdown by main sectors and types of...
  N° 8   19 Apr 2013 Who Cares? Corporate Governance in Today's Equity Markets
Mats Isaksson, Serdar Çelik
There are two main sources of confusion in the public corporate governance debate. One is the confusion about the role of public policy intervention. The other is a lack of empirical knowledge about the corporate landscape where rules are supposed to be implemented and the functioning of...
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