Nadia Vanteeva

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the factors behind Russia's dramatically improved corporate sector performance from the beginning of the 2000s to December 2007, and argue that improved long-term corporate performance was a consequence of several policy initiatives associated with the state-dominated banking sector, which enabled statesubsidized investment funds to be channeled from a structurally reengineered energy sector to targeted investment projects located in other industries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether ownership matters for firm performance using a hand-collected corporate ownership dataset and found that it was not necessarily the broad structure of corporate ownership that mattered for performance but whether family blockholders had a governance role.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that co-ownership played an important role in generating improved long-term performance, particularly in industries with high asset-specificity, and that the policy was most effective in industries in which firms tended to undertake large lump-sum investments.

TL;DR: It can be inferred that business managers may be attempting to obfuscate bad news associated with high data breach severity incidents by manipulating syntactical features of the data breach notification letters in a way that makes the message difficult for individuals to comprehend.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors find that the dividend payout pattern for Russian corporations during their formative period from 1998 to 2006 was seemingly independent of company earnings, size, growth opportunities and capital structure, as such firm policies appear not to conform to any of the main extant dividend payout theories.