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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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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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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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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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executives and boards, driven in large part by their perceptions of shareholder interest. We quantify the value that shareholders … place on ESG using a revealed preference approach, where shareholders pay higher fees for ESG-oriented index funds in …
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responsibility indices. These tests and the most recent proposals data predominantly indicate that shareholders are driven by non … shareholders are willing to sacrifice (or, 'greeniums'), along with the increasing amounts of assets pledged to firms that become …
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Institutional investors are less likely to support shareholder proposals involving environmental and social issues for firms headquartered in Republican-led states. The lower support concentrates in recent years, when politicians became more vocal about firms' social responsibility activities,...
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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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