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Shareholder Voting and Corporate Governance Around the World
Iliev, Peter - 2015
Using a sample of non-U.S. firms from 43 countries, we investigate whether laws and regulations as well as votes cast by U.S. institutional investors are consistent with an effective shareholder voting process. We find that laws and regulations allow for meaningful votes to be cast as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011773
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Shareholder Voting and Corporate Governance Around the World
Iliev, Peter - 2015
Using a sample of non-U.S. firms from 43 countries, we investigate whether laws and regulations as well as votes cast by U.S. institutional investors are consistent with an effective shareholder voting process. We find that laws and regulations allow for meaningful votes to be cast as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038476
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463416
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
suggesting a default template of rules. Ultimately, the matter of protection was one for the corporation and its shareholders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521411
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
suggesting a default template of rules. Ultimately, the matter of protection was one for the corporation and its shareholders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523499
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International Evidence on Firm Level Decisions in Response to the Crisis : Shareholders vs. Other Stakeholders
Allen, Franklin - 2018
The relationship between changes in GDP and unemployment during the 2008 financial crisis differed significantly from previous experiences and across countries. We study firm-level decisions in France, Germany, Japan, the UK, and the US. We find significant differences between the response of US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931027
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International Evidence About the Influence of Large Shareholders on Corporate Risk Taking
Diez Esteban, Jose Maria - 2017
This paper analyzes the relationship between ownership structure (shareholders' stake and identity) and corporate risk … also find a trend to the alignment of interests between the largest shareholder and the other large shareholders, so that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974325
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026372
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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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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