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Chapter 6. Law and Finance After a Decade of Research

La Porta, Rafael; Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio; … - 2013

In the last dozen years, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country’s laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well as with economic outcomes. Much of this research has dealt with rules...

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Investment treaties and shareholder claims : analysis of treaty practice

Gaukrodger, David - 2014

. Shareholder claims are permitted for direct injury to shareholder rights (such as voting rights). But shareholders generally …

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Investment treaties and shareholder claims for reflective loss : insights from advanced systems of corporate law

Gaukrodger, David - 2014

investment on the other hand, treat claims for damages by company shareholders differently. Advanced domestic systems generally … bar shareholders from claiming for reflective loss – loss that arises from injury to "their" company (such as a decline in … the value of shares). The claim for the loss belongs to the injured company and not to its shareholders. In contrast …

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Chapter 4. Law and Corporate Governance

Bartlett, Robert; Talley, Eric - 2017

Pragmatic and effective research on corporate governance often turns critically on appreciating the legal institutions surrounding corporate entities—yet such nuances are often unfamiliar or poorly specified to economists and other social scientists without legal training. This chapter...

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An international study of shareholder protection in freeze-out M&A transactions

Ouyang, Wenjing; Zhu, PengCheng - In: International review of financial analysis 45 (2016), pp. 157-171

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Who cares? : corporate governance in today's equity markets

Isaksson, Mats; Çelik, Serdar - 2013

There are two main sources of confusion in the public corporate governance debate. One is the confusion about the role of public policy intervention. The other is a lack of empirical knowledge about the corporate landscape where rules are supposed to be implemented and the functioning of...

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