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Chapter 1. Corporate Governance and Control

Becht, Marco; Bolton, Patrick; Röell, Ailsa - 2003

Corporate governance is concerned with the resolution of collective action problems among dispersed investors and the reconciliation of conflicts of interest between various corporate claimholders. In this survey we review the theoretical and empirical research on the main mechanisms of...

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Does target CEO retention in acquisitions involving private equity acquirers harm target shareholders?

Bargeron, Leonce; Schlingemann, Frederik P.; Zutter, Chad J. - 2012

While there is widespread concern that target CEO retention by a private equity acquirer can result in a lower premium for target shareholders because of the potential conflict of interest of the CEO, it is also possible that target shareholders could benefit from CEO retention because it can...

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State-owned enterprise governance : a stocktaking of reforms and challenges in Southern Africa

Balbuena, Sara S. - 2014

This report is the first known stocktaking of its kind to provide a regional overview of state-owned enterprise (SOE) governance reforms and challenges across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Part One summarises the challenges and governance practices related to...

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Does mandatory shareholder voting prevent bad acquisitions?

Becht, Marco; Polo, Andrea; Rossi, Stefano - 2014

Shareholder voting on corporate acquisitions is controversial. In most countries acquisition decisions are delegated to boards and shareholder approval is discretionary, which makes existing empirical studies inconclusive. We study the U.K. setting where shareholder approval is imposed...

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Managerial entrenchment of anti-takeover devices : quasi-experimental evidence from Korea

Hwang, Sunwoo; Kim, U-chʾan - 2011

With the removal of statute-based anti-takeover provisions during the aftermath of Asian crisis, a significant number … firm-level anti-takeover provisions (ATP) vary over time (making firm fixed effects regression feasible) and its amendment …. Using a sample during 1999-2009, we find that firms with charter-based anti-takeover provisions are smaller in size, have …

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Chapter 12 Corporate Law and Governance

Becht, Marco; Bolton, Patrick; Röell, Ailsa - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 829-943). 2007

This chapter surveys the theoretical and empirical research on the main mechanisms of corporate law and governance, discusses the main legal and regulatory institutions in different countries, and examines the comparative governance literature. Corporate governance is concerned with the...

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Female board representation and corporate acquisition intensity

Chen, Guoli; Crossland, Craig; Huang, Sterling - In: Strategic management journal 37 (2016) 2, pp. 303-313

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Managerial control benefits and takeover market efficiency

Wang, Wenyu; Wu, Yufeng - In: Journal of financial economics 136 (2020) 3, pp. 857-878

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Predicting takeover targets : long-run evidence from the Netherlands

Jong, Abe de; Fliers, Philip - In: De economist : quarterly review of the Royal … 168 (2020) 3, pp. 343-368

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Do minority acquisitions transfer better corporate governance practices? : an analysis of UK's cross-border minority investments

Polovina, Nereida; Peasnell, Ken V. - In: The British accounting review : the journal of the … 52 (2020) 3, pp. 1-25

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