Purpose - This study examines the link between firm-level large share price movements, firm specific company announcements and corporate governance. Stock market regulation in the UK requires firms to disclose new Price Sensitive Information (PSI) immediately via official news providers. We...

This paper offers in-depth analysis of the determinants and features of voluntary disclosure based on information in the annual reports of 1066 Chinese firms listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. This extensive sample represents about 80% of all public companies in China. Our...

This report updates and expands earlier studies to look at the profitability of $349.7 billion of buybacks executed from 2000 through early 2010 by a sample of 275 corporations. The sample companies, drawn mainly from the technology sector, enjoy total equity market value today of $945.6...

This paper investigates the role of blockholders within a firm. It studies the relationship between the number of blockholders and the share volatility of US listed firms. Controlling for potential endogeneity problems, it results that the number of blockholders affects positively share price...

The objective of this paper is to examine whether underpricing is associated with board structure and corporate ownership among Indonesian IPO firms. To capture the most recent development, the sample comprises 101 firms conducting initial public offerings (IPOs) in Indonesia's primary equity...

We evaluate the effects of management ownership and other corporate governance variables on Hong Kong firms' stock performance following the onset of the Asian Financial Crisis (1997-98), a period during which corporate governance structures to protect the interests of outside shareholders are...

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of blockholders (large shareholders) in corporate governance. We start with the underlying property rights of public corporations; we discuss how blockholders are critical in addressing free-rider problems and why, like...

Corporate inversion, the process of redomiciling for tax purposes, reduces corporate income taxes, but it imposes a personal tax cost that is shareholder-specific. We develop a model, incorporating the corporate tax benefits and personal tax costs, to quantify the return to inversion for...