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What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?

Gompers, Paul A. - 2017

We survey 79 private equity (PE) investors with combined assets under management of more than $750 billion about their practices in firm valuation, capital structure, governance, and value creation. Investors rely primarily on internal rates of return and multiples to evaluate investments. Their...

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Index Fund and ETF Ownership and the German Market for Corporate Control

Dobmeier, Ludwig - 2019

If a bidder launches a takeover offer for a listed company being part of a stock market index, then index funds and exchange traded funds (ETF) as shareholders of this company cannot easily tender their shares without losing track of the index. This paper analyzes the impact of index fund and...

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6th World Pensions Forum held in London : Greening, Governance and Asset Ownership

Weeks, David - 2019

The sixth annual World Pensions Forum was held on 23-24 February 2017 at the Queen's House in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.Over 120 representatives attended: from pension and sovereign funds, central banks and government agencies including financial regulators. Topics discussed included...

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Investor Activism and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Singh, Akshay - 2016

This study analyzed activism that leads to a merger or acquisition (M&A) of a firm to see its benefits for the shareholders at the target firm as well as its acquirer. It used over thirty years of data to understand the impact of the activists’ demands of strategic significance for the firms....

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The link between firm risk-taking and CEO power of listed firms on the Vietnamese stock market : the role of state ownership

Ngoc Thanh Tran; Thi Ngoc Dung Pham; Dien Duan Nguyen; … - In: Cogent business & management 11 (2024) 1, pp. 1-16

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is pivotal in firm governance and is tasked with policy implementation and maximizing … shareholder benefit. However, predicting CEO behaviour remains challenging, especially when considering CEO power (CEOP). Hence …. Interestingly, CEO risk aversion increases in state-owned firms’ participants, suggesting heightened supervision. Moreover, each …

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An econometric analysis of financial distress determinants from an emerging economy governance perspective

Sewpersadh, Navitha Singh - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-36

opportunism" and CEO dominance. Also, long-tenured CEOs and post-graduate directors possess contextually enriched latent knowledge …

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The Role of Corporate Governance in the Events Leading Up to the Global Financial Crisis : Analysis of Aggressive Risk-Taking

Tarraf, Hussein - 2011

This paper seeks to explain how failures in corporate governance contributed to the global financial crisis. More precisely, it studies how the current corporate governance systems failed to safeguard against aggressive risk taking and to provide the control that companies need in order to...

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Bank complexity, governance, and risk

Correa, Ricardo; Goldberg, Linda S. - 2020

Bank holding companies (BHCs) can be complex organizations, conducting multiple lines of business through many distinct legal entities and across a range of geographies. While such complexity raises the costs of bank resolution when organizations fail, the effect of complexity on BHCs' broader...

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Information Transmission between Banks and the Market for Corporate Control

Bittner, Christian; Fecht, Falko; Pala, Melissa; Saidi, … - 2022

This paper provides evidence of deliberate private-information disclosure within banks' international business networks. Using supervisory trade-level data, we show that banks with closer ties to a target advisor in a takeover buy more stocks of the target firm prior to the deal announcement,...

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Board Hierarchy, Independent Directors, and Firm Value : Evidence from China

Zhu, Jigao - 2017

While US companies mainly list their board of directors alphabetically, this is not the case for Chinese companies, most of which list their independent directors last. We interpret the listing order of Chinese directors as board hierarchy, reflecting power allocation within the board. Based on...

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