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Quantifying foreign institutional block ownership at publicly traded U.S. corporations

Coates, John C.; Fein, Ronald A.; Crenny, Kevin; Dong, … - 2016

of foreign block ownership, at a broad set of publicly traded corporations. Disclosed institutional blockholders of every …This short technical report provides an empirical analysis of the level of institutional block ownership overall, and … company in the Standard & Poor's 500 index are analyzed, and the distribution of blockholders is presented. Blockholders are …

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Mavericks, universal, and common owners : the largest shareholders of U.S. public firms

Amel-Zadeh, Amir; Kasperk, Fiona; Schmalz, Martin C. - 2022

-financial blockholder or insider as their largest shareholder. Blockholders and insiders tend to be less diversified than institutional … investors. Measures of "universal" and "common" ownership of firms are therefore lower than previously believed based on … analyses of institutional investors' holdings alone, and the heterogeneity in ownership structures across firms is greater …

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Internal vs. external corporate social responsibility at U.S. banks

Bolton, Brian - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 8 (2020) 4/65, pp. 1-28

This study analyzes the effect that banks' investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) have on bank performance. I find that banks' investments in CSR have a positive impact on financial performance, measured in terms of both accounting performance and stock market value. However, not...

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Passive shareholders as a takeover defense

Bodnaruk, Andrij; Gao, Pengjie; Östberg, Per; Yun, Hayong - 2011

more passive shareholders (lower ownership per non-institutional shareholder) are less likely to be takeover targets, less … Acquisitions, Ownership Structure and Corporate Governance …

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Governance risks : how to measure them by means of the incremental cash-flow model

Apreda, Rodolfo - 2011

Governance risks stem from the own governance of any organization. The paper puts forward an operational viewpoint of those risks, by mapping the most distinctive categories of governance analysis onto time-dependent governance variables. Afterwards, risks conveyed by the latter are measured...

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When heirs become major shareholders : evidence on tunneling and succession through related-party transactions

Kim, U-chʾan; Hwang, Sunwoo - 2014

compare them against their year-industry-size-matched firms (control group) before and after the ownership change. Difference …

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Empirical research on corporate credit-ratings : a literature review

Matthies, Alexander B. - 2013

We report on the current state and important older findings of empirical studies on corporate credit ratings and their relationship to ratings of other entities. Specifically, we consider the results of three lines of research: The correlation of credit ratings and corporate default, the...

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Corporate governance data and measures revisited

Larcker, David F.; Reiss, Peter C.; Xiao, Youfei - 2015 - Draft: November, 2015

Researchers in accounting, corporate finance, economics, and law regularly evaluate the impact of corporate governance provisions on firm performance and managerial actions. Many of these studies rely on publicly available governance summaries developed by the Investor Responsibility Research...

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The Advisory Role of Foreign Directors in U.S. Firms

Naveen, Lalitha - 2014

We study the role of foreign directors in U.S. firms. We conclude that foreign directors, especially those from countries that are dissimilar to the U.S. in terms of business environment (i.e., dissimilar directors), are chosen by multinational corporations (MNCs) to provide advice, and this...

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Investor Protection and Cash Holdings : Evidence from U.S. Cross-Listing

Huang, Ying - 2014

This paper examines whether the level of firms' cash holdings differ depending on the strength of investor protection, whether excess cash holdings are valued more with better investor protection, and whether cross-listed firms that improve investor protection through ‘bonding' hold relatively...

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