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Corporate governance and firm characteristics as explanatory factors of shareholder activism: Validation through the French context

Souha, Siala Bouaziz; Anis, Jarboui - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-19

This study deals with the major determinants of company shareholder activism investigated with according to a set of SBF 120 listed firms. Based on a sample of 77 companies, observed over the period 2008-2012, we are led to conclude that some firm governance characteristics do appear to affect...

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Firm characteristics and informal governance of business operations in the PRD, China

Bickenbach, Frank; Liu, Wan-Hsin - 2011

This paper describes the Chinese economic and institutional reform process as a gradual transition of an informal, relation-based governance system into a more formal and rule-based governance system. The consequences of macro-level institutional reforms on the importance of personal...

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Firm Characteristics and Corporate Governance Disclosure in Integrated Reports

Raimo, Nicola; Zito, Marianna; Caragnano, Alessandra - 2020

In recent years, the debate on corporate governance has considerably grown worldwide. In this scenario, corporate governance disclosure is gaining greater attention and the advent of integrated reporting offers a new interesting channel to companies for the dissemination of corporate governance...

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The price of media capture and the looting of newspapers in interwar France

Bignon, Vincent; Flandreau, Marc - 2012

This paper develops a new insight enabling the empirical study of media capture: minority shareholders of newspapers …. Empirical data is consistent with increasing levels of looting in France during the 1930s. We provide a comparison with Britain …

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Bank Management between Shareholders and Regulators

Harm, Christian - 2002

This essay discusses the corporate governance of banks. Bank managers must balance competing demands from shareholders … third section then spells out a recommendation for a logically consistent regime in which shareholders (equity governance …

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Minority shareholders in the Finnish system of corporate governance

Kaisanlahti, Timo - 2002

investors. In a famous study by La Porta et al. (1998) it is concluded that the rights of shareholders are more advanced in … for equal treatment of shareholders. Moreover, we review the spezial rules of minority protection in our Companies Act to … provide a broader view of the legal landscape that Finnish minority shareholders inhabit. In passing, we make some comparisons …

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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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Institutionelle Investoren und Corporate Governance: Eine empirische Analyse

Steiger, Max - 1998

Eine der herausragenden Entwicklungen auf den internationalen Finanzmarkten in den letzten Jahren ist die Institutionalisierung, d. h. die zunehmende Delegation privater Ersparnisse an professionelle Kapitalanleger - den institutionellen Investoren. Darunter sind private...

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On the cash-flow and control rights of contingent capital

Mitchell, Chris - 2018

over management's portfolio selection. The paper demonstrates that rational shareholders - that anticipate these endogenous …

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The role of institutional investors in improving board of director attributes around the world

Alshabibi, Badar - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 4, pp. 1-33

This paper investigates the role of institutional investors in the improvement of corporate governance for the companies in which they invest (investee companies) using evidence about the attributes of boards of directors across 15 countries. Furthermore, this paper examines the extent to which...

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