The rise and fall of the widely held firm
Subtitle: a history of corporate ownership in Canada
By: Randall Morck ... [et al.].
Contributors: Morck, Randall.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10635; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10635.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Stock ownership -- Canada.
Description: "A panel of corporate ownership data, stretching back to 1902, shows that the Canadian corporate sector began the century with a predominance of large pyramidal corporate groups controlled by wealthy families or individuals.  By mid-century, widely held firms predominated.  But, from the 1970s on, pyramidal groups controlled by wealthy families and individuals resurge, restoring a situation similar to that a century earlier.  Institutional factors underlying this resurgence are shown to have antecedents deep in the country's colonial past"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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