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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
. Using c.500 articles of association and ownership records of publicly-traded Victorian corporations, we find that … shareholder protection had more diffuse ownership. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523499
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
. Using c. 500 articles of association and ownership records of publicly-traded Victorian corporations, we find that … shareholder protection had more diffuse ownership. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521411
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Private Equity, LBOs, and Corporate Governance : International Evidence
Siegel, Donald S. - 2011
We review the governance role of private equity (PE) firms in companies that have experienced an LBO. We conjecture that PE firms may provide powerful remedies to agency conflicts associated with public and private firms, such as managerial entrenchment and opportunism
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131653
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Global Ownership and Corporate Control Networks
Rungi, Armando - 2019
ownership and control of companies. Then, we apply it to a dataset of 53.5 million of companies operating in 208 countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901128
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The Governance Transfer of Blockholders : Evidence from Block Acquisitions and Earnings Management around the World
Dai, Lili - 2017
We examine the governance transfer effect of corporate blockholders in a sample of 892 block acquisitions across 42 countries from 1990 to 2008. Using earnings management as a proxy for corporate governance outcome, we find that target firms' earnings management is aligned with that of block...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974044
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Chapter 10. Evolution of Ownership and Control Around the World: The Changing Face of Capitalism
Franks, Julian; Mayer, Colin - 2017
This chapter documents the evolution of ownership and control of firms around the world over a hundred year period from … stock markets and contrasts these with the persistent patterns of ownership that are observed in many countries around the … world. In particular, it documents the growth in dispersion in ownership that took place in many countries from the early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023371
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Investment treaties and shareholder claims for reflective loss : insights from advanced systems of corporate law
Gaukrodger, David - 2014
Corporate law in advanced domestic legal systems on the one hand, and typical treaties for the protection of foreign investment on the other hand, treat claims for damages by company shareholders differently. Advanced domestic systems generally bar shareholders from claiming for reflective loss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463416
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Chapter 6. Law and Finance After a Decade of Research
La Porta, Rafael; Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio; … - 2013
In the last dozen years, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country’s laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well as with economic outcomes. Much of this research has dealt with rules...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025558
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Shareholders at the Gate? Institutional Investors and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Ferreira, Miguel A. - 2009
institutional ownership is positively associated with the intensity of cross-border M&A activity worldwide. Foreign institutional … ownership increases the probability that a merger deal is cross-border, successful, and the bidder takes full control of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158587
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Politics-business interaction paths
Belloc, Marianna; Pagano, Ugo - 2009
ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other … ; ownership concentration ; Bayesian model estimation ; Bayesian model comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923223