This paper contrasts the recent European initiatives on regulating corporate groups with alternative approaches to the phenomenon. In doing so it pays particular regard to the German codified law on corporate groups as the polar opposite to the piecemeal approach favored by E.U. legislation. It...

This study analyses the factors influencing institutional ownership in the largest non-financial companies listed in five major European countries from 2010 to 2015. Consistently with previous empirical literature, both country-level and firm-level variables result to be relevant. As for country...

This paper investigates the role that shareholders may play in corporate governance by analysing the European Shareholder Rights' Directive n. 36/2007/EC and the consequences of its implementation upon general meetings and ownership structure of Italian listed companies. It summarises the rules...

The proxy solicitation process is one of the main aspects of the corporate governance of listed companies, where tension has grown between the interest in facilitating shareholder participation and gaining control of the company in connection with the procedure to obtain the proxies. Act...