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We study the role of institutional investors in cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We find that foreign institutional ownership is positively associated with the intensity of cross-border M&A activity worldwide. Foreign institutional ownership increases the probability that a merger...
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This study uses two distinct quasi-natural experiments to examine the effect of institutional shareholders on corporate … reconstitutions improves portfolio firms' CSR performance. We then find that firms have lower CSR ratings when shareholders are … financially material. Furthermore, we show that institutional shareholders influence CSR through CSR-related proposals. Overall …
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Conventional wisdom suggests that shareholder activism in REITs is less prevalent than in other (non-REIT) public firms because of stronger barriers to hostile takeovers and potentially less undervaluation. Our results, however, suggest that the conventional wisdom does not hold. Specifically,...
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minority equity stakes and do not seek direct control. As a result, activists must win support from fellow shareholders via … shareholders, other stakeholders, and the capital market as a whole. Opponents of hedge fund activism argue that activists focus …
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to an influential argument, activist shareholders can offer a solution by supplying large investment managers with … shareholders – have different visions of stewardship with little scope for interactions. For large investment managers, general …
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Managerial resistance precludes half of shareholder-initiated proposals from reaching the ballot stage. I construct a novel dataset of excluded and withdrawn proposals from the Securities and Exchange Commission's responses to managers' exclusion requests. An examination of announcement returns...
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blockholder when the cost of activism is low or the created value is high. Such a reform would favor minority shareholders …
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The SEC’s proposed climate disclosure rule has generated substantial controversy. Among the concerns raised by commentators is that the rule is unnecessary because investors can obtain sufficient climate-related disclosure through private ordering. We examine one mechanism for private ordering...
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This study investigates the transition from being a listed company with a dispersed ownership structure to being a privately held company with a concentrated ownership structure. We consider a sample of private equity backed portfolio companies to evaluate the consequences of the corporate...
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We study the global corporate engagement activities of a large UK-based asset manager from 2006 to 2011. Using proprietary data on these activities, we find that corporate engagements “behind-the-scenes” are frequently used to change corporate behavior. We show that geography is an important...
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