China's young securities markets are at an all time high and attracting investors the world overworldwide who are eager to ride the progress to fortune. However, the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets also display high volatility, often jaggedly lurching up and down rather than rising at steady...

Shareholder voting on corporate acquisitions is controversial. In most countries acquisition decisions are delegated to boards and shareholder approval is discretionary, which makes existing empirical studies inconclusive. We study the U.K. setting where shareholder approval is imposed...