NBER Publications by Michael Percy
Working Papers and Chapters
| November 2005 | The Rise and Fall of the Widely Held Firm: A History of Corporate Ownership in Canada
with Randall Morck, Gloria Tian, Bernard Yeung
in A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers, Randall K. Morck, editor
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| July 2004 | The Rise and Fall of the Widely Held Firm - A History of Corporate Ownership in Canada
with Randall Morck, Gloria Tian, Bernard Yeung: w10635
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. |
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