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Shareholders at the Gate? Institutional Investors and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Ferreira, Miguel A. - 2009
We study the role of institutional investors in cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We find that foreign institutional ownership is positively associated with the intensity of cross-border M&A activity worldwide. Foreign institutional ownership increases the probability that a merger...
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The Leximetric Research on Shareholder Protection
Siems, Mathias - 2015
The leximetric research on shareholder protection can contribute to core questions of comparative company law. For example, such research may be able to show whether or not there is a trend to increase shareholder power across countries. It can also provide us with tools to confirm or challenge...
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Globalizing Trust? Transferring Anglo-American Minority Shareholder Protections to Civil Law Germany
Halberstam, Michael - 2008
shareholders in civil law systems explains crucial differences in corporate structure and finance. It questions the thesis that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214432
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Collaborative investor engagement with policymakers : changing the rules of the game?
Yamahaki, Camila; Marchewitz, Catherine - 2023
Although a growing number of investors are engaging with sovereign entities on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, little academic research investigates this new form of investor activism. Applying universal ownership theory and drawing on eleven case studies of policy...
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An International Study on Shareholder Protection in Minority M&A Transactions
Ouyang, Wenjing - 2015
We define minority M&A transactions as those initiated by target controlling shareholders to acquire minority … shareholders' ownership in the same target firm. Existing studies provide diverse evidence with regard to whether minority … shareholders are expropriated by controlling shareholders in minority merger deals. Rather than studying transactions in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028467
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Product Market Competition and Shareholder Rights : International Evidence
Knyazeva, Anzhela - 2013
This paper examines the interaction between product market competition and international differences in shareholder rights in relation to firm performance and corporate policies. In contrast to existing literature, we provide evidence of complementarities between product market competition and...
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Antitakeover Statutes and Internal Corporate Governance
Lee, Choonsik - 2015
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The Further Erosion of Investor Protection : Expanded Exemptions, SPAC Mergers and Direct Listings
Tuch, Andrew F.; Seligman, Joel - 2022
This article examines the decades-long decline of investor protections enshrined in the Securities Act of 1933, most notably Section 11, which imposes near strict liability on corporate insiders and certain secondary actors, primarily underwriters. The provision, the most potent in the federal...
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Investment treaties and shareholder claims for reflective loss : insights from advanced systems of corporate law
Gaukrodger, David - 2014
investment on the other hand, treat claims for damages by company shareholders differently. Advanced domestic systems generally … bar shareholders from claiming for reflective loss – loss that arises from injury to "their" company (such as a decline in … the value of shares). The claim for the loss belongs to the injured company and not to its shareholders. In contrast …
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The Coming of Shareholder Stewardship : A Contextual Analysis of Current Anglo-American Perspectives on Corporate Governance
Talbot, Lorraine E. - 2010
institutional shareholders should play in governing the corporation. In the US this discussion is around the idea of shareholder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138199