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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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Chapter 10. Evolution of Ownership and Control Around the World: The Changing Face of Capitalism
Franks, Julian; Mayer, Colin - 2017
This chapter documents the evolution of ownership and control of firms around the world over a hundred year period from … stock markets and contrasts these with the persistent patterns of ownership that are observed in many countries around the … world. In particular, it documents the growth in dispersion in ownership that took place in many countries from the early …
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Corporate governance in the European context
Gantenbein, Pascal; Volonté, Christophe - In: Die Unternehmung : Swiss journal of business research … 73 (2019) 2, pp. 122-145
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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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Corporate governance convergence in the European M&A market
Drobetz, Wolfgang; Momtaz, Paul P. - In: Finance research letters 32 (2020), pp. 1-9
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Investment treaties and shareholder claims for reflective loss : insights from advanced systems of corporate law
Gaukrodger, David - 2014
Corporate law in advanced domestic legal systems on the one hand, and typical treaties for the protection of foreign investment on the other hand, treat claims for damages by company shareholders differently. Advanced domestic systems generally bar shareholders from claiming for reflective loss...
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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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Who cares? : corporate governance in today's equity markets
Isaksson, Mats; Çelik, Serdar - 2013
means that concentrated ownership at company level has become the dominant form of ownership in listed companies worldwide …
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When heirs become major shareholders : evidence on tunneling and succession through related-party transactions
Kim, U-chʾan; Hwang, Sunwoo - 2014
compare them against their year-industry-size-matched firms (control group) before and after the ownership change. Difference …
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Institutional investors as owners : who are they and what do they do?
Çelik, Serdar; Isaksson, Mats - 2013
This paper provides a framework for analysing the character and degree of ownership engagement by institutional … of ownership engagement. It is therefore an evasive “shorthand” for policy discussions about ownership engagement. The … reason is that there are large differences in ownership engagement between different categories of institutional investors …
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