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We consider the allocation of corporate control in a company with two large and a continuum of small shareholders …. Control is determined in a shareholders' meeting, where the large shareholders submit competing proposals in order to attract … the vote of small shareholders. The presence of multiple shareholders reduces private benefits through competition for …
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I investigate whether implementation of the mandatory bid rule – the rule that grants all shareholders the right to … participate in a takeover transaction at equal terms – affects target announcement returns. I use a difference …
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This paper analyzes how announce changes in the corporate control (takeover) of Endesa, Hidrocantábrico and Scottish … MCO models. Also, the results suggest the announcement of the launching of a takeover positively and significantly affects …
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We study the role of institutional investors in cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We find that foreign institutional ownership is positively associated with the intensity of cross-border M&A activity worldwide. Foreign institutional ownership increases the probability that a merger...
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We investigate whether and how major shareholders influence M&A wealth effects for listed acquirers in Europe. To that … strong connections of family owners with management in family-controlled firms. Next, large institutional shareholders all … overconfidence. As to the division of M&A gains, we find that regardless of their identity, large acquirer shareholders tend to put …
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This paper analyses lawsuits against shareholders' resolutions according to the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) and … lawsuit is pending with a court. In particular, mergers have to be implemented without any delay. The minority shareholders … voting power of minority shareholders and create incentives to use the real option inefficiently. Therefore, the majority …
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about how free markets can work to the benefit of all. Shareholders, not politicians, should decide how to run their … preferable to a more protectionist approach, where change is resisted, competitive pressures are weakened, and shareholders …
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announcement events. Takeover announcements are not random because managers decide rationally whether to bid or not, this indicates … conditional model the results indicate that after controlling for the self-selection bias effect, shareholders of bidder firms …
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I use a negative exogenous shock to the ability to file shareholder initiated class action lawsuits, the passage of the 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, to test the effect of the probability of being sued on a firm's capital structure. After the Act's passage, firms with the...
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This paper analyzes the interaction between shareholder structures and the quality of the corporate governance structure in France using the value creation criterion. Using shareholder structures allows to analyze the performance of French firms and to measure an underperformance of “hard...
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