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Jean-Claude Cosset
Researcher at Laval University
Publications - 20
Citations - 1566
Jean-Claude Cosset is an academic researcher from Laval University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Country risk & Developing country. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 19 publications receiving 1513 citations.
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The Financial and Operating Performance of Newly Privatized Firms: Evidence from Developing Countries
TL;DR: The authors examined the change in the financial and operating performance of 79 companies from 21 developing countries that experienced full or partial privatization during the period from 1980 to 1992 and found significant increases in profitability, operating efficiency, capital investment spending, output, employment level, and dividends.
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The Determinants of Country Risk Ratings
Jean-Claude Cosset,Jean Roy +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors replicated Euromoney's and Institutional Investor's country risk ratings on the basis of economic and political variables. And they found that the ability of the model to duplicate the two country risk measures is very similar and both magazines' ratings can be replicated to a significant degree.
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Diversification strategy and capital structure of multinational corporations
Imed Chkir,Jean-Claude Cosset +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between the capital structure of multinational corporations and their diversification strategy and found that leverage increases with both international and product diversification, and that the combination of both types of diversification leads to lower levels of bankruptcy risk.
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Political Risk and the Benefits of International Portfolio Diversification
TL;DR: In this article, the benefits of portfolio investment in the stock markets of politically risky countries by evaluating the effects of political risk constraints on the performance of a portfolio of international stocks was examined.
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Privatization, corporate governance and economic environment: Firm-level evidence from Asia
TL;DR: The authors examined the postprivatization performance of newly privatized firms in Asia and document how the private ownership structure evolves over time, showing that privatization leads to an increase in profitability, efficiency, and output in former state-owned firms from Asia.