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Emerging Market Business Groups, Foreign Investors, and Corporate Governance
Khanna, Tarun - 2010
We examine the interaction between three kinds of concentrated owners commonly found in an emerging market: family-run business groups, domestic financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. Using data from India in the early 1990s, we find evidence that domestic international...
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Smokescreen : How Managers Behave When They Have Something to Hide
Artiga González, Tanja - 2013
We study financial reporting and corporate governance in 218 companies accused of price fixing. These firms engage in evasive financial reporting strategies, including earnings smoothing, segment reclassification, and restatements. In corporate governance, cartel firms favor outside directors...
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Continuing Dangers of Disinformation in Corporate Accounting Reports
Kane, Edward J. - 2009
value' by issuing deceptive accounting reports. Incentive support for disinformational activity comes through forms of … compensation that allow corporate insiders to profit extravagantly from temporary boosts in a firm's accounting condition or … for hiding adverse information. It is ironic that what are called accounting ethics' fail to embrace the profession …
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The Effect of Liquidity on Governance
Edmans, Alex - 2011
This paper studies the effect of stock liquidity on blockholders' choice of governance mechanisms. We focus on hedge funds as they are unconstrained by legal restrictions and business ties, and thus have all governance channels at their disposal. Since the threat of governance, not just actual...
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Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge
Becker, Bo - 2012
We use the Business Roundtable's challenge to the SEC's 2010 proxy access rule as a natural experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional...
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Large Block Shareholders, Institutional Investors, Boards of Directors and Bank Value in the Nineteenth Century
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2013
Share prices of modern corporations are influenced by the size and structure of boards of directors, large individual and institutional investors, and shareholder voting rights, among other governance features. It is not clear whether the same features mattered historically, given recent...
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The Granular Nature of Large Institutional Investors
Ben-David, Itzhak - 2016
Large institutional investors own an increasing share of the equity markets in the U.S. The implications of this development for financial markets are still unclear. The paper presents novel empirical evidence that ownership by large institutions predicts higher volatility and greater noise in...
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Research in Accounting for Income Taxes
Graham, John R. - 2010
This paper comprehensively reviews Accounting for Income Taxes (AFIT). The first half provides background and a primer …
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Law and Finance C. 1900
Musacchio, Aldo - 2010
How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature argues that legal origins have persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world today (La Porta et al, 1998,...
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Universal Banking and the Performance of German Firms
Gorton, Gary B. - 2011
Universal banking is an alternative mechanism to a stock market for risk-sharing, for providing information for guiding investment, and for contesting corporate governance. In Germany, where the stock market has historically been small, banks hold equity stakes in firms and have proxy voting...
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