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We investigate the consequences of public disclosure of information from company income tax returns filed in Australia … divulge sensitive information that is, in many cases, misunderstood. Our results show that in Australia large private …
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mechanism and test the over-identifying restrictions for Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. For all three countries …
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Although nation-based systems of financial regulation constitute a second-best approach to global welfare maximization, treacherous accountability problems must be acknowledged and resolved before regulatory cooperation can deal fairly and efficiently with cross-border issues. To track and...
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Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...
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several former colonies of Great Britain: the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. We trace out …
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work on shareholders and shareholder activism, directors, executives and their compensation, controlling shareholders …
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an information ea between management and outside shareholders. In the presence of such a gap, maximizing short-run and … actions that will reduce long-run value. In such a case, management faces the dilemma of which shareholders to please: those …
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Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically … to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public …. These shareholders have a large impact on firms, controlling for selection effects …
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This paper analyzes the early history of corporate shareholding, and its relationship with political change. In the late eighteenth century, corporations were extremely rare and were dominated by elites, but in the early nineteenth century, after American politics became significantly more...
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While staggered boards have been documented to be negatively correlated with firm valuation, such association might be due to staggered boards either bringing about lower firm value or merely reflecting the tendency of low-value firms to have staggered boards. In this paper, we use two natural...
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