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Mergers and the Evolution of Patterns of Corporate Ownership and Control : The British Experience
Cheffins, Brian R. - 2010
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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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
This paper examines the origins of investor protection under the common law by analysing the development of shareholder protection in Victorian Britain, the home of the common law. In this era, very little was codified, with corporate law simply suggesting a default template of rules....
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
This paper examines the origins of investor protection under the common law by analysing the development of shareholder protection in Victorian Britain, the home of the common law. In this era, very little was codified, with corporate law simply suggesting a default template of rules....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521411
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Shareholder Primacy and the Trajectory of UK Corporate Governance
Armour, John - 2011
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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Performance benefits of tight control
Gill, Andrej; Visnjic, Nikolai - 2013
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 companies to evaluate the consequences of the corporate...
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The Rising Tension between Shareholder and Director Power in the Common Law World
Hill, Jennifer G. - 2020
This article explores the rising tension between shareholder and director power in the common law world. First the … common law jurisdictions. Secondly, the article discusses power shifts in the opposite direction – namely toward the board … rules designed to enhance shareholder power, and commercial practices designed to subvert it. It shows how strategic …
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Private Contracting, Law and Finance
Acheson, Graeme - 2019
In the late nineteenth century Britain had almost no mandatory shareholder protections, but had very developed financial markets. We argue that private contracting between shareholders and corporations meant that the absence of statutory protections was immaterial. Using circa 500 articles of...
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Bankers’ Pay after the 2008 Crisis : Regulatory Reforms in the US and the EU
Ferrarini, Guido - 2013
Atlantic. We show that the regulation of bankers' pay is presently more detailed and less flexible in Europe than in the US …
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Corporate Governance and Foreign Ownership : The Impact of Stricter Regulatory Sanctions
Bhatta, Bibek - 2016
We examine whether stricter non-compliance sanctions on corporate governance regulations influence the investment decisions of foreign portfolio investors in emerging markets. To answer this question we use a natural experiment provided by a corporate governance regulatory reform introduced in...
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Partnership, Ownership and Control : The Impact of Corporate Governance on Employment Relations
Deakin, Simon - 2011
ownership. Where the corporate governance system can be seen to support partnership, it is in conjunction with market regulation …
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