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This paper studies the corporate governance and asset pricing implications of investors owning blocks in multiple firms. Common wisdom is that multi-firm ownership weakens governance because the blockholder is spread too thinly. We show that this need not be the case. In a single-firm benchmark,...
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This essay reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on quality disclosure and certification. After comparing quality disclosure with other quality assurance mechanisms and describing a brief history of quality disclosure, we address three key theoretical issues: (i) Why don't sellers...
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Regulation Fair Disclosure …
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In a corporate freeze-out, the controller is required to compensate minority shareholders for the no-freezeout value of … that, under a regime in which frozen out minority shareholders receive a compensation equal to the pre-freezeout market …
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their responsible workers, and in turn engage in CSR through self-regulation, provided that regulatory oversight is poor … enough - and hence regulation is loose enough - to make self-regulation worthwhile. The key prediction of the model is a … gas emissions disclosure in all public firms. Consistent with our theory, we find that firms in the UK receive lower CSR …
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. In some cases shareholders are pushing companies to take actions that may reduce market value. It is hard to understand …
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work on shareholders and shareholder activism, directors, executives and their compensation, controlling shareholders …
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position to benefit themselves at the expense of minority shareholders -- were endemic to corporations in the late …, however, was to give controlling shareholders the power to extract more than their fair share of their enterprise's profits …
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theory, in countries where private benefits of control are larger capital markets are less developed, ownership is more … important in curbing these private benefits. A high degree of statutory protection of minority shareholders and high degree of …
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an information ea between management and outside shareholders. In the presence of such a gap, maximizing short-run and … actions that will reduce long-run value. In such a case, management faces the dilemma of which shareholders to please: those …
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