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An intense academic debate has arisen recently concerning the crucial bedrock that underpins a corporate governance regime where widely-held public companies dominate. In the discourse, little has been said about the contribution of merger activity. The paper seeks to address this gap by...
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This study investigates whether conference calls accompanying M&A announcements in Europe provide valuable information for capital market participants and hence induce an abnormal stock price revaluation on the bidder’s equity. Based on handpicked data for transactions between 2008 and 2012 we...
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The regulation of hostile takeovers constitutes an interesting corporate governance microcosm. It is an area where … clear contrasts in approach, regarding the balance of power between shareholders and the board of directors, are evident … across different jurisdictions. Takeovers also reflect the dynamic operation of legal regulation (which includes the …
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This paper investigates the role of top management and board interlocks between acquirers and targets. I hypothesize that an interlock may exacerbate agency problems due to conflicting interests and lead to value-decreasing acquisition. An interlock may also serve as a conduit of information and...
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overreactive in nature, stymie the market, and create new opportunities for regulatory arbitrage. This is not surprising: takeover …
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contribution is to show who actually has power in a takeover and what factors are at work to give such power. Although directors … lack the power to determine the outcome of a takeover bid, the reason for that is not embedded in the takeover regime …I analyze the allocation of the power to decide on hostile takeovers between directors and shareholders. My …
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Core institutions of UK corporate governance, in particular those relating to takeovers, board structure and directors' duties, are strongly orientated towards a norm of shareholder primacy. Beyond the core, in particular at the intersection of insolvency and employment law, stakeholder...
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This study examines the impact of staggered boards, poison pills, and unequal voting rights on corporate innovation intensity using a sample of listed firms in six Asian countries from 2010-2017. We analyze the differential effects of antitakeover provisions using the high order fixed effects...
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A great merger wave occurring in the United States between 1897 and 1903 was the single most important event in a process that yielded the pattern of managerial control and dispersed share ownership which currently distinguishes America's corporate economy from arrangements in most other...
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power, but superior governance is associated with greater relatedness between the target and acquirer. We also find that the … effect of CEO power on a firm’s acquisition activity varies according to the source of that power. Our results suggest that … the relationships between governance, CEO power, and acquisition activity are complex …
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