Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/83229 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 2003/7
Publisher: 
Turkish Economic Association, Ankara
Abstract: 
This paper reports on the ownership and control structures of publicly listed firms in Turkey using data from 2001. While holding companies and non-financial firms are the most frequent owners at the direct level, families ultimately own more than 80 percent of all publicly listed firms in Turkey. Pyramids and dual class shares are common devices that families use to separate their cash-flow rights from control rights. We also show that such deviations result in significantly lower market to book ratios suggesting large agency costs because of the conflict of interests between controlling families and minority shareholders.
Subjects: 
Ownership Structure
Corporate Governance
Business Groups
Family Ownership
Turkey
JEL: 
G31
G32
O16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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