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Private placement is the sale of securities to a limited number of qualified institutions or high-wealth investors. Although private placement is favorable for firms raising capital, it is relatively easy for managers to exploit it to benefit specific investors. Using a sample of Taiwanese...
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obtain a trade-off: with more noise trading (less 'price efficiency') the activist can build up a larger stake, which leads … to more effort expenditure and higher firm value (more 'economic efficiency'). The model implies that activist ownership … stock pickers. Shortening the period during which activists can trade, however, hurts economic efficiency …
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participants is able to draw returns "in kind" from distressed companies. For firms close to bankruptcy, non-cash returns to …
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participants is able to draw returns "in kind" from distressed companies. For firms close to bankruptcy, non-cash returns to …
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We propose a dynamic asset-market equilibrium model in which (1) an "innovative" asset with as-yet-unknown average payoff is traded, and (2) investors delegate investment to experts. Experts secretly renege on investors' orders and take on leveraged positions in the asset to manipulate...
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corresponds to a more productive activist. We thus obtain a trade-off: with more noise trading (less `price efficiency') the … activist can build up a larger stake, which leads to more effort expenditure and higher firm value (more `economic efficiency') …
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corresponds to a more productive activist. We thus obtain a trade-off: with more noise trading (less `price efficiency') the … activist can build up a larger stake, which leads to more effort expenditure and higher firm value (more `economic efficiency') …
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