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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...

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Shareholder Voting and Corporate Governance Around the World

Iliev, Peter - 2015

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Private Enforcement of Directors’ Duties : Derivative Actions as a Global Phenomenon

Siems, Mathias - 2013

shareholders can sue for compensation on behalf of the company. In some legal systems such derivative actions have been in place … considerable diversity around the world. In this paper I explore how the availability of derivative actions is related to other … account for the differences and similarities in the law of derivative actions across countries. However, a quantitative …

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Trade, Voting, and ESG Policies : Theory and Evidence

Friedman, Daniel; Duffy, John; Rabanal, Jean Paul; Rud, Olga - 2023

Environment, social and governance (ESG) policies have become important to many investors. We model the interaction between ESG policy proposals and shareholder trading and voting under different sets of preferences, and we test the predictions of our model in a laboratory experiment. In a first...

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Policy Framework for Regulation of Financial Instruments – An Analysis with Special Emphasis to Financial Derivatives

2017

Financial Derivatives have established themselves as a major driving force in the international monetary sphere in the recent past. Financial Derivatives were originally used as an effective monetary instrument to multiply the wealth through ripple effect, of late, these instruments are also...

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The positive economics of corporatism and corporate governance

Fehn, Rainer; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2000

This paper presents a positive model which shows that institutional setups on capital and labor markets might be intertwined by politicoeconomic forces. Two politicoeconomic equilibria arise from our model, one with little protection of insiders on capital and labor markets, and another one with...

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Index-Fund Governance : An Empirical Study of the Lending-Voting Tradeoff

Hu, Edwin - 2020

Institutional investors' role in shareholder voting is among the most hotly debated subjects in corporate governance. Some argue that institutions lack adequate incentives to effectively monitor managers; others contend that the largest institutions have developed analytical resources that...

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Bankers' Compensation and Prudential Supervision

Ferrarini, Guido - 2011

This is a Chapter contributing to the Research Handbook on Executive Compensation. In the quest for possible causes of the recent financial crisis, commentators often argue that bank executives had poor incentives. Critics claim, in particular, that executive compensation was not properly...

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Egalitarianism and International Investment

Siegel, Jordan I. - 2011

This study identifies how country differences on a key cultural dimension - egalitarianism - influence the direction of different types of international investment flows. A society's cultural orientation toward egalitarianism is manifested by intolerance for abuses of market and political power...

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The positive economics of corporatism and corporate governance

Fehn, Rainer; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2000

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265445

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