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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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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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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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GIM Index or the proportion of activist shareholders. Following these special meetings, we find that the next quarter …
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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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Using natural language processing, we identify corporate goals stated in the shareholder letters of the 150 largest companies in the United States from 1955 to 2020. Corporate goals have proliferated, from less than one on average in 1955 to more than 7 in 2020. While in 1955, profit...
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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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