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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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Three centuries of corporate governance in the UK
Turner, John D. - 2024
which shareholders monitored and exercised voice to one where there was more reliance on external forces and exiting …
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Performance benefits of tight control
Gill, Andrej; Visnjic, Nikolai - 2013
This study investigates the transition from being a listed company with a dispersed ownership structure to being a privately held company with a concentrated ownership structure. We consider a sample of private equity backed portfolio companies to evaluate the consequences of the corporate...
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Shareholder activists and frictions in the CEO labor market
Keusch, Thomas - 2021
Using hand-collected data on CEO appointments during shareholder activism campaigns, this study examines whether shareholder involvement in CEO recruiting affects frictions in CEO hiring decisions. The results indicate that appointments of CEOs who are recruited with shareholder activist...
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Brick or Treat : Shareholder Activism and Corporate Leasing
Li, Fang; Ormazabal, Gaizka; Vergara-Alert, Carles - 2022
This paper studies the role of shareholder activism on corporate leases. We find that the presence of shareholder activists is associated with large increases in leasing. This association is stronger in periods of high real estate prices and for firms with larger amounts of real estate assets....
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The costs and benefits of shareholder democracy
Gantchev, Nickolay; Giannetti, Mariassunta - 2018
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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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What are the shareholder value implications of non-voted shareholder proposals?
Couvert, Maxime - 2018
Managerial resistance precludes half of shareholder-initiated proposals from reaching the ballot stage. I construct a novel dataset of excluded and withdrawn proposals from the Securities and Exchange Commission's responses to managers' exclusion requests. An examination of announcement returns...
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The consequences to directors of deploying poison pills
Johnson, William C.; Karpoff, Jonathan M.; Wittry, … - 2019 - First complete draft: August 30, 2019
We examine the labor market consequences for directors who adopt poison pills. Directors who become associated with pill adoption experience significant decreases in vote margins and increases in termination rates across all their directorships. They also experience a decrease in the likelihood...
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