Prinz, Aloys; Burg, Tsjalle - In: European Journal of Law and Economics 36 (2013) 3, pp. 423-445
investigates this proposition, focusing on public bads. Theoretically it is, indeed, possible that shareholders decide that the … firm reduces its public bads at the cost of profits, thereby increasing Pareto-efficiency. One of the factors which help …, the greater the reduction will tend to be. It is shown that the reduction in public bads can be reversed by takeovers, but …