高等研究所セミナーシリーズ【政治・経済・法の計量分析】
Waseda Organizational and Financial Economics Seminar
The Great Pyramids of America: A Revised History of US Business Groups, Corporate Ownership and Regulation, 1930-1950
| 講演者 | Yishay Yafeh 氏 (Professor, School of Business Administration,The Hebrew University, Israel ) 講演者のプロフィールはこちら |
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| 日 時 | 2016年1月25日（月） 13:00～14:30 |
| 会 場 | 早稲田大学 早稲田キャンパス11号館11階 1111号室 |
| 主 旨 | Most listed firms are freestanding in the U.S, while listed firms in other countries often belong to business groups: lasting structures in which listed firms control other listed firms. Hand-collected historical data illuminate how the present ownership structure of the United States arose: (1) Until the mid-20th century, US corporate ownership was unexceptional: large pyramidal groups dominated many industries; (2) About half of these resembled groups elsewhere today in being industrially diversified and family controlled; but the others were tightly focused and had widely held apex firms; (3) US business groups disappeared gradually, primarily in the 1940s, and by 1950 were largely gone; Their demise took place against growing concerns that they posed a threat to competition and even to society; (4) We establish a link between the disappearance of business groups and reforms that targeted them explicitly – the Public Utility Holding Company Act (1935) and rising intercorporate dividend taxation (after 1935), or indirectly – enhanced investor protection (after 1934), the Investment Company Act (1940) and escalating estate taxes. Banking reforms and rejuvenated antitrust enforcement may have indirectly contributed as well. These reforms, sustained in a lasting anti-big business climate, promoted the dissolution of existing groups and discouraged the formation of new ones. Thus, a multi-pronged reform agenda, sustained by a supportive political climate, created an economy of freestanding firms. |
| プログラム | 13：00 開会の挨拶（宮島英昭 早稲田大学高等研究所 所長／商学学術院 教授） 13：05 講演 14：05 質疑応答 14：25 閉会の挨拶（宮島英昭） |
| 対 象 | 学部生・大学院生・研究者・教職員 等 |
| 主 催 | 早稲田大学産業経営研究所 早稲田大学高等研究所 |
| 申込み | 事前申し込み不要です。直接会場にお越しください。 |
