. Using c. 500 articles of association and ownership records of publicly-traded Victorian corporations, we find that … shareholder protection had more diffuse ownership. …

. Using c.500 articles of association and ownership records of publicly-traded Victorian corporations, we find that … shareholder protection had more diffuse ownership. …

findings, it can be expected that after a time lag ownership concentration would decrease in continental Europe. However, our … evidence is mixed. The analysis of the development of shareholder structures from different perspectives - ownership … concentration, shareholder classes and ownership distribution - revealed only limited support for the Law and Finance arguments. The …

This study investigates the transition from being a listed company with a dispersed ownership structure to being a … privately held company with a concentrated ownership structure. We consider a sample of private equity backed portfolio … comparable public companies. These performance differences come from the increase in ownership concentration after the leveraged …

performance. Consistent with our aggravated expropriation hypothesis, we find that pledging firms in China initiate more takeovers … expropriate minority shareholders through self-serving corporate takeovers after the stock pledge …

participate in a takeover transaction at equal terms – affects target announcement returns. I use a difference …

control. In the optimal ownership structure, the more efficient blockholder will hold just enough shares to gain control, but …