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Stockholdings of Officers and Directors in American Industrial Corporations

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I. Nature of data and of sample: 1. The SEC data on stock ownership, 622; 2. Choice of companies in sample, 624; 3. Limitations of the data, 628. — II. Proportion of stock outstanding owned by management: 1. Percentage of stock owned by management groups, 631; 2. The relation between total percentage holdings and size of management groups, 633; 3. The relation between percentage holdings and size of company, 635. — III. The market value of stock owned by management: 1. Individual value-holdings of leading executives, 640; 2. Average value-holdings of management groups, 644; 3. The relation between average value-holdings and size of firm, 650. — IV. Summary and conclusions, 650.

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  • R. A. Gordon, 1936. "Stockholdings of Officers and Directors in American Industrial Corporations," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 50(4), pages 622-657.
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    1. John R. Graham & Sonali Hazarika & Krishnamoorthy Narasimhan, 2011. "Financial Distress in the Great Depression," NBER Working Papers 17388, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Foreman-Peck, James & Hannah, Leslie, 2011. "Extreme Divorce: the Managerial Revolution in UK Companies before 1914," Cardiff Economics Working Papers E2011/21, Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section.
    3. Clifford G. Holderness & Randall S. Kroszner & Dennis P. Sheehan, 1998. "Were the Good Old Days That Good? Changes in Managerial Stock Ownership Since the Great Depression," NBER Working Papers 6550, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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