Using a sample of 680 and 1,300 judicial and private auctions respectively, we analyze the effect on the wealth of those the law is intended to protect of different regulations applicable to each type of auctions. We find that consistent with a simple economic model, Courts assign judicial...

We propose a model to estimate the private benefits of control (PBC) in control transfer transactions for a broad range of regulatory environments, from private negotiations to mandatory tender offers. Barclay and Holderness (1989) and Dyck and Zingales (2004) Block Premium models are nested as...