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Index membership vs. loss of voting power : the unification of dual-class shares
Betzer, André; Bongard, Inga van den; Goergen, Marc - 2017 - This version: March 2017
A change in the index selection rules of Deutsche Börse provides a unique opportunity to investigate the drivers behind the decision to a bolish dual-class shares. As of June 2002, selection is based on the market capitalization of the free-float of the more liquid share class rather than the...
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The impact of a cross-listing on dividend policy
Abdallah, Wissam; Goergen, Marc - In: International journal of corporate governance : IJCG 1 (2008) 1, pp. 49-72
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Index membership vs. loss of voting power : the unification of dual-class shares
Betzer, André; Bongard, Inga van den; Goergen, Marc - In: Journal of international financial markets, … 49 (2017), pp. 140-153
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Disentangling the link between stock and accounting performance in acquisitions
Betzer, André; Doumet, Markus; Goergen, Marc - In: The European journal of finance 21 (2015) 7/9, pp. 755-771
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Corporate Governance in the Financial Sector of Pakistan
Chaudary, Faiza A.; Goergen, Marc; Syed, Shoeb I. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
La Porta et al. (1998) assign Pakistan, a common-law country, the maximum score of 5 for their anti-director rights … index. Pakistan should therefore be a country with good investor protection attracting large amounts of investments. However …, the reality could not be more different. Pakistan has been lagging behind other, comparable Asian economies in terms of …
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Disentangling the link between stock and accounting performance in acquisitions
Betzer, André; Goergen, Marc - 2011
While empirical studies that use event-study methodology find on average that the gains from mergers and acquisitions are positive, those focusing on accounting figures tend to find a significant drop in performance. We argue that each of the four possible combinations between positive or...
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Evolution of control of cross-listed companies
Abdallah, Wissam; Goergen, Marc - In: The European journal of finance 22 (2016) 13/15, pp. 1507-1533
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Strong Managers and Passive Institutional Investors in the UK
Goergen, Marc; Renneboog, Luc - 1999
The first striking feature is that ownership of the average UK company is diffuse: a coalition of at least eight shareholders is required to reach an absolute majority of voting rights. Even though the average firm has a dispersed ownership, the reader should bear in mind that there are about...
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Dividend policy, corporate control and the tax status of the controlling shareholder
Andres, Christian; Betzer, André; Goergen, Marc - 2012
This paper studies the impact of the concentration of control, the type of controlling shareholder and the dividend tax preference of the controlling shareholder on dividend policy for a panel of 220 German firms over 1984-2005. While the concentration of control does not have an effect on the...
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Corporate governance and financial performance : a study of German and UK initial public offerings
Goergen, Marc - 1998
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