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This paper studies the link between the agency costs of equity and the agency costs of debt. Using a unique sample of the ownership structure of single and dual class firms as well as hand-collected data on loan contracts, we find that the agency cost of debt – proxied by various loan...
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. We find that: (1) PSP sponsors successfully identify firms that suffer from a misalignment of managers and shareholders …' interests; (2) CEOs' pay-for-performance sensitivity increases in the post-proposal period; and (3) shareholders benefit through … performance (NPSPs). Collectively, our results indicate that shareholders benefit from this pay-performance activism through PSPs …
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This paper investigates interactions between two central corporate governance mechanisms: shareholder rights and managerial ownership. I find that the effect of managerial ownership on firm value crucially depends on shareholder rights. Managerial ownership enhances firm value when shareholder...
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The goal of this paper is to examine whether the stewardship code, which emanated in circumstances that are specific to the United Kingdom (UK), is capable of transposition to other jurisdictions that experience different corporate structures as well as legal and institutional mechanisms. It...
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, we find that shareholders do not react negatively to the inclusion of a Dead Hand Proxy Put in a firm's loan agreements …
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Corporate bylaws are the new leading edge of a decades-long struggle between shareholders and managers over the … allocation of decision-making authority in public companies. Bylaws are the only method by which shareholders can unilaterally … in circumstances where shareholders' other core rights, i.e., the ability to exit the firm or sue its fiduciaries, are …
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Ease of coordination can enable diffuse shareholders to play a more effective role in corporate governance and thereby … coordination, I find evidence that ease of coordination among institutional shareholders is positively associated with firm value … coordination improves firm value by enhancing the governance role provided by shareholders …
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