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Pension fund return s can be decomposed into different sources, including market movements, asset allo-cation policy, and active portfolio management. We use a unique database covering the asset allocations of US defined-benefit pension funds for the perio d 1990–2008, and we test the role...
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underscore the economic importance of regulation in the funds’ asset allocation choices, relative to institutional and individual …
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Having been introduced in the European Union and in many other countries, the equal opportunity rule is seen as protecting investors in the event of a transfer of control. This rule should be analyzed in a context of appropriation of private benefits between the new controlling shareholders and...
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The equal opportunity rule is seen as protecting investors in the event of a transfer of control. In order to better analyze the consequence of such a rule, we need to account for the information asymmetry that exists between new controlling shareholders and outside investors with private...
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We investigate the link between the regulation of control transactions and the institutional and corporate features of …
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. We approach this question through a qualitative study of the heated debate over the new regulation of over …
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Selon le principe de la muraille de Chine, les activités de gestion doivent pouvoir s’organiser de manière totalement indépendante des activités du dépositaire. En pratique, le principe de cloisonnement entre les activités du dépositaire et celles de la SGP peut apparaître comme une...
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. Recent scandals in the financial industry exposed overconfidence in IT based regulation and, as scholars of regulation have … with a broad perspective we define sociomaterial regulation as the relationships between the rules, the IT artifacts, and … modalities of sociomaterial regulation which can be understood using the three relationships: functionality-, tool-, role …
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corporate governance can be viewed as a consequence of the pension industry reorganisation which occured in the 1970s and 1980s in so far as corporate governance borrows the same organisational principles.
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In the theoretical framework of corporate governance this article studies the efficiency of the control exerted by the ownership structure and the board of directors on managers. The confrontation of entrenchment theory and agency theory allows to determine the necessary conditions of the...
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