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employ 'harmful' resistance that is not perceived as being motivated by shareholders' interests. We find that harmful …
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This paper examines empirically the announcement effect of commercial corporate governance ratings on share returns. Rating downgrades by Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) are associated with negative returns of –1.14% over a 3-day announcement window. The returns are highly correlated...
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corporate governance scholars should understand the nonfinancial motivations of shareholders when evaluating potential conflicts … controlling-versus-minority shareholders. Lastly, the PP literature should shift its rhetoric from conflicts to a good balance …
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The Nasdaq Stock Market's enforcement activities offer a unique setting for investigating the consequences of changes in corporate governance as evidenced by deficiency notices. We document significant negative abnormal returns in response to Nasdaq deficiency notices for audit committee and...
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Recent research on blockholders focuses on activist hedge funds and documents positive stock but negative bond returns. This study investigates the role of blockholder heterogeneity on security market effects and target firm follow-on activities across three important dimensions: identity,...
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Shareholder investment horizons have a significant impact on Say-on-Pay voting patterns. Short-term investors are more likely to avoid expressing opinion on executive pay proposals by casting an abstaining vote. They vote against board proposals on pay only in cases where the CEO already...
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generally create wealth, as shareholders at best realize modest gains and at worst break even …
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.S. But we argue that outside investors in European listed firms with controlling shareholders are poorly protected compared … shareholders rather than shielding passive investors, is not well suited for controlled, listed firms. This approach translates … into a lack of definition and development of specific fiduciary duties of the controlling shareholders towards market …
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a greater likelihood of goodwill impairment. Overall, our findings indicate that controlling shareholders increasingly … expropriate minority shareholders through self-serving corporate takeovers after the stock pledge …
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sunset after a fixed period of time (such as ten or fifteen years) unless their extension is approved by shareholders …
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