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In July of 1826, several prominent Wall Street firms abruptly went bankrupt, amid scandalous revelations of fraudulent financial practices by their management. Although mostly forgotten today, these events represented a watershed in the early development of the corporation laws and investor...
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Is greater trading liquidity good or bad for corporate governance? We address this question both theoretically and … information concerns her own plans for taking an active role in governance. We show that an increase in the liquidity of the firm …'s stock increases the likelihood of the large investor 'taking the Wall Street walk.' Thus, higher liquidity is harmful for …
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We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change limited managers'...
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This paper studies the effect of stock liquidity on blockholders' choice of governance mechanisms. We focus on hedge … measure governance intent rather than only studying instances of actual governance. We find that liquidity increases the … likelihood that a hedge fund acquires a block in a firm. Conditional upon acquiring a stake, liquidity reduces the likelihood …
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This paper examines the determinants of firm stock-price performance from 1990 to 1993" in Japan. During that period of …
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This paper develops a dynamic continuous-time model in which international risk sharing can yield substantial welfare gains through its positive effect on expected consumption growth. The mechanism linking global diversification to growth is an attendant world portfolio shift from safe, but...
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