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This paper investigates the role that shareholders may play in corporate governance by analysing the European … aiming at strengthening shareholders' voice in general meetings on the assumption that this is a prerequisite for sound … same time, may play a significant role in improving corporate governance by balancing the power of dominant shareholders …
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In this paper, we design a multi-dimensional index to measure the quality of Corporate Governance systems adopted by firms and use it to investigate the correlation between Corporate Governance quality and firm value.Unlike most studies that examine the relationship between only one dimension of...
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costs. Family-controlled firms and coalitions among non-controlling shareholders seem helpful in reducing agency costs. The … results suggest that coalitions among non-controlling shareholders both in family and non-family firms reduce agency costs …
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: the participation in the shareholders' meeting by means of telecommunications, with particular attention to the regulation …
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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...
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The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on director interlocks by illustrating and analysing the interlocking directorships among the Italian, French, German, UK and US listed Blue Chips. The comparison of the five countries considered shows that two national models stand...
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