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Comment author: MartinB 15 July 2010 07:33:33PM 2 points [-]

and/or that they use bad incentives. public held corporations usually get outperformed by family owned entities due to better long term planability. Even Managers optimize for whatever they get payed by.

Comment author: Larks 18 July 2010 01:09:47AM 1 point [-]

public held corporations usually get outperformed by family owned entities

Really? Robin linked to a paper suggesting that firms floated on the stock markets have better management than family-owned firms.

Comment author: gwern 18 July 2010 06:40:55AM 0 points [-]

As I recall, Robin also linked to a paper pointing out that very large companies underperform. Family-owned firms tend to not become that large; I wonder if that undoes the going public effect.

Comment author: Larks 18 July 2010 03:30:41PM 0 points [-]

We may be running into problems with the ambiguity of 'outperform'; clearly dis-economies of scale aren't going to allow family run firms to become larger than public ones, for example.