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resurrection" strategy. Moreover, the strength of corporate governance influences shareholders' capacity to align executive …
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with theory of the firm based on conflicts of interests between shareholders and stakeholders, we find that establishments … of firms that experience an increase in ownership by larger and more concentrated institutional shareholders have lower … local labor markets, and for dedicated and activist institutional shareholders. The labor losses are accompanied by higher …
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staggered boards established in the corporate charter (which shareholders cannot amend) than for staggered boards established in … the company's bylaws (which can be amended by shareholders) …
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This paper presents an overview of the history of corporate governance in the United States, emphasizing the period before the advent of federal securities laws and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Recent research has overturned many widely accepted beliefs about corporate...
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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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. In some cases shareholders are pushing companies to take actions that may reduce market value. It is hard to understand …
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work on shareholders and shareholder activism, directors, executives and their compensation, controlling shareholders …
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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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minority shareholders. We provide evidence and a model that explains propping. In particular, we suggest that issuing debt can …
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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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