Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129078 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
FinMaP-Working Paper No. 59
Publisher: 
Kiel University, FinMaP - Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance, Kiel
Abstract: 
We investigate the network topology of a comprehensive data set of the world-wide population of corporate entities. In particular, we have extracted information on the boards of all companies listed in Bloomberg's archive of company profiles in October, 2015, a total of almost 100; 000 firms. We provide information on board membership overlap at various levels, and, in particular, show that there exists a core of directors who accumulate a large number of seats and are highly connected among themselves both at the level of national networks and at the worldwide aggregated level.
Subjects: 
board and director interlocks
network core
network formation
JEL: 
D85
L20
M14
M51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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