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Eurozone countries today) and two - Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency.All four episodes were associated with an … occurred because the sterling coincidentally appreciated. In Finland and Sweden the currency experienced an extremely large … detailed case studies, two - Denmark and Ireland - undertaken under fixed exchange rates (the most relevant case for many …
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Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
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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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important in curbing these private benefits. A high degree of statutory protection of minority shareholders and high degree of …
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managers, institutional investors, small shareholders, auditors, and other parties involved in corporate governance. The lower …
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This paper studies the corporate governance and asset pricing implications of investors owning blocks in multiple firms. Common wisdom is that multi-firm ownership weakens governance because the blockholder is spread too thinly. We show that this need not be the case. In a single-firm benchmark,...
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GIM Index or the proportion of activist shareholders. Following these special meetings, we find that the next quarter …
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position to benefit themselves at the expense of minority shareholders -- were endemic to corporations in the late …, however, was to give controlling shareholders the power to extract more than their fair share of their enterprise's profits …
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shareholders from the complex, pyramidal, and often obscure corporate structures. First, we show that there are large differences …
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