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Constraints on large-block shareholders

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A theory of firm scope

Hart, Oliver D.; Holmström, Bengt - 2008

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When did ownership separate from control? : Corporate governance in the early nineteenth century

Hilt, Eric - 2007

This paper analyzes the ownership and governance of the business corporations of New York State in the 1820s. Using a new dataset collected from the manuscript records of New York's 1823 capital tax, and from the charters of the corporations, I analyze the ownership structures of the firms, and...

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Managerial ownership dynamics and firm value

Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger; Stulz, René M. - 2007

From 1988 to 2003, the average change in managerial ownership is significantly negative every year for American firms. The probability of large decreases in ownership is strongly increasing in contemporaneous and past stock returns but the probability of large increases in ownership through...

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Voting rights, share concentration, and leverage at nineteenth-century US banks

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Liquidity management of US global banks : internal capital markets in the Great Recession

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Bank governance, regulation, and risk taking

Laeven, Luc; Levine, Ross - 2008

"This paper conducts the first empirical assessment of theories concerning relationships among risk taking by banks, their ownership structures, and national bank regulations. We focus on conflicts between bank managers and owners over risk, and show that bank risk taking varies positively with...

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Financial globalization, corporate governance, and Eastern Europe

Stulz, René M. - 2006

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Are the seeds of bad governance sown in good times?

Schoar, Antoinette; Washington, Ebonya - 2011

following good firm performance or a desire to reward management for good past performance. Overall our evidence seems more …

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