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Mavericks, Universal, and Common Owners - the Largest Shareholders of U.S. Public Firms
Amel-Zadeh, Amir; Kasperk, Fiona; Schmalz, Martin - 2022
We construct a novel data set to show that, between 2003-2020, up to one-fifth of America’s largest firms had a non-financial blockholder or insider as their largest shareholder. Blockholders and insiders tend to be less diversified than institutional investors. Measures of “universal” and...
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25 Years of European Merger Control
Affeldt, Pauline - 2020
We study the evolution of EC merger decisions over the first 25 years of common European merger policy. Using a novel … dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all merger cases scrutinized by the Commission over the … definition and the complexity of the merger. Simple, linear probability models as usually applied in the literature overestimate …
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Assessing EU Merger Control Through Compensating Efficiencies
Affeldt, Pauline; Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus Peter; … - 2021
that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for 1,014 mergers affecting 12,325 antitrust markets scrutinized by the … concerns about the Commission’s merger enforcement being too lax …
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Mergers in the Digital Economy
Gautier, Axel - 2020
Over the period 2015-2017, the five giant technologically leading firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM) acquired 175 companies, from small start-ups to billion dollar deals. By investigating this intense M&A, this paper ambitions a better understanding of the Big Five's...
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Evidence Production in Merger Control : The Role of Remedies
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2021
We analyze evidence production in merger control as a delegation problem in an inquisitorial competition policy system …. The antitrust agency’s incentives to produce evidence on the efficiency of a merger proposal depend critically on its … implemented only after evidence on the efficiency of a merger proposal has been produced …
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Mobile Internet and the Rise of Political Tribalism in Europe
Manacorda, Marco; Tabellini, Guido; Tesei, Andrea - 2022
We study the political effects of the diffusion of mobile Internet between 2007 and 2017, using data on electoral outcomes and on mobile Internet signal across the 84,564 municipalities of 22 European countries. We find that access to mobile Internet increased voters’ support for right-wing...
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Punish One, Teach A Hundred: The Sobering Effect of Punishment on the Unpunished
D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Xie, Jin - 2019
Direct experience of a peer’s punishment might make non-punished peers reassess the probability and consequences of facing punishment and hence induce a change in their behavior. We test this mechanism in a setting, China, in which we observe the reactions to the same peer’s punishment by...
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Optimal delegation when the large shareholder has multiple tasks
Graziano, Clara; Luporini, Annalisa - 2010
We analyze the optimal ownership, delegation and compensation structures when a manager is hired to run a firm and to gather information on investment projects. The initial owner has two tasks: monitoring the manager and supervising project choice. Optimality would require a large ownership...
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Corporate governance reforms, interlocking directorship networks and company value in Italy (1998-2007)
Drago, Carlo; Millo, Francesco; Ricciuti, Roberto; … - 2011
In this paper we contribute to the literature on the structure of interlocking directorship networks and to the literature on the relationship between corporate governance and performance. We use a unique dataset made of corporate governance variables related to the board size and interlocking...
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How weak is the weakest-link principle? : On the measurement of firm owners' control rights
Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2004
The paper argues that the weakest link principle, which has been widely used as a measure of ultimate owners? control rights, has a number of serious problems. A theoretically more satisfactory method of measuring control rights, based on voting power indices, is proposed, and the different...
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