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Does Media Coverage Cause Meritorious Shareholder Litigation? Evidence from the Stock Option Backdating Scandal
Donelson, Dain C.; Kartapanis, Antonis; Yust, Christopher G. - 2021
This study examines the role of media coverage on meritorious shareholder litigation. Asserting a causal effect of the media on litigation is normally difficult due to the endogenous nature of media coverage. However, we use the Wall Street Journal’s backdating coverage to overcome these...
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Bylaws Mandating Arbitration of Stockholder Disputes?
Allen, Claudia H - 2015
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Shareholder Litigation and Insider Trading : Evidence from Derivative Litigation
Jung, Sumi - 2020
Universal Demand (UD) laws by different states. The UD laws substantially raise the hurdle for shareholders to file derivative … sales, after the passage of UD laws, suggesting derivative litigation serves a disciplinary role in curbing insider trading …. The deterrence effect of derivative litigation complements that of federal securities litigation, as it is effective in …
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Disclosure of beneficial ownership and control in Indonesia : legislative and regulatory policy options for sustainable capital markets
Jurdant, Fianna - 2013
A good corporate governance framework should combine transparency, accountability and integrity and this requires knowledge of beneficial ownership. The protection of minority investors and other stakeholder protection will be challenging without access to reliable information about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775531
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Beneficial ownership and control : a comparative study ; disclosure, information and enforcement
Vermeulen, Erik P. M. - 2013
Investor confidence in financial markets depends in large part on the existence of an accurate disclosure regime that provides transparency in the beneficial ownership and control structures of publicly listed companies. This is particularly true for corporate governance systems that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711197
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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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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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Corporate groups : a German's European perspective
Tröger, Tobias - 2014
exemption for transactions with wholly owned subsidiaries allows controlling shareholders to circumvent the rule extensively … shareholders and creditors. Hence, if the Commission choses to go down this route it might end up with a comprehensive regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406185
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Offensive Shareholder Activism in U.S. Public Companies, 1900-49
Cheffins, Brian R. - 2011
“Offensive shareholder activism” involves buying up sizeable stakes in underperforming companies and agitating for changes predicted to increase shareholder returns. Though hedge funds are currently highly publicized practitioners of this corporate governance tactic, there has been no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130237
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Shareholder Campaign Funds : A Campaign Subsidy Scheme for Corporate Elections
Harris, Lee - 2011
elections give shareholders the power “to turn the board out.” However, in reality, the vast majority of corporate elections are …
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