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shareholders is smaller or when savings banks are family firms. Practical implications: Outside directors can not only play the …
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This paper analyzes post-financial crisis developments in the Brazilian capital markets, focusing especially on the current status of “shareholder power.” Using recent data collected in 2013, it investigates whether changes in ownership structures remain stable and assesses how these changes...
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and, specifically, on the insurance companies as hospital dominant shareholders with respect to other types of … shareholders. Arguments from the ownership and strategic management literatures are used from a theoretical point of view …. Specifically, this paper analyses empirically the effects of insurance companies as controlling shareholders on the financial …
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The increase in institutional ownership, the shift towards passive portfolio management and the rise of common ownership have transformed OECD countries financial markets in the last decades. The paper investigates the potential consequences of these transformations on firm's productivity, using...
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with theory of the firm based on conflicts of interests between shareholders and stakeholders, we find that establishments … of firms that experience an increase in ownership by larger and more concentrated institutional shareholders have lower … local labor markets, and for dedicated and activist institutional shareholders. The labor losses are accompanied by higher …
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certification of foreign institutional investors mitigates domestic minority shareholders’ mistrust of controlling shareholders …’ reform plans and facilitates the SSSR. Domestic minority shareholders cast fewer dissenting votes and complete the SSSR with … institutional investors’ prestige is a key factor in aligning domestic minority shareholders towards seeking long-term payoffs. With …
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This paper shows that agency problems result from controlling-minority shareholder conflicts have a nonlinear causal relation with firm cash holding, and this relation hinges critically on the strength of investor protection. Using a direct measure of controlling shareholder's entrenchment...
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presence of dominant shareholders. Our results show that shareholder coalitions affect payout policy negatively (both for … new evidence on the effects of corporate control mechanisms on shareholders wealth; this evidence is complementary to the …
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We study shareholder activism through proxy proposals in the United States from 1997-2006. We investigate the determinants for being targeted and the corresponding voting results. By using a distinctive sample that also includes withdrawn and omitted proposals, we circumvent a selection bias...
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of private benefits of control on minority shareholders … theoretical model shows that, while private benefits are generally harmful to minority shareholders, the overall effect depends on …
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