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institutional shareholders. Using hand-collected data from Israel, an environment with concentrated ownership, I employ a power … index borrowed from the political science literature to examine the voting power wielded by institutional shareholders and … the voting patterns they display. I find that institutional shareholders' voting power is negatively related to their …
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to limit managerial authority. Both models view insiders and shareholders as engaged in a competitive struggle for … scholars and judges continue to debate the appropriate balance of power between shareholders and insiders, corporate practice …, the Article shows how collaboration promotes the production and aggregation of information from insiders and shareholders …
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We examine the effect of shareholder litigation rights on managers' acquisition decisions. Our experimental design exploits a U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on July 2, 1999 that resulted in a reduction in shareholder class actions. We find that, since the ruling, firms in Ninth...
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-friendly) retail shareholders. Our study focuses on an observable managerial choice of how to deliver proxy materials to maximize … retail turnout. Management can opt to send a full set of proxy materials to all shareholders, which increases retail turnout … but also increases printing and mailing costs, or they can send a notice directing shareholders to proxy materials …
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We document the role of investors at the periphery of control - "quasi-insiders" - in corporate governance. These agents, who include founders, former CEOs, and other former officers, launch activist campaigns in smaller and worse-performing firms than other activists, and use aggressive tactics...
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This paper examines the effect of shareholder governance on firms' cost of borrowing. Using voting results on shareholder-sponsored governance proposals, we find significant and negative reactions in the public debt and secondary loan markets to the passage of governance proposals. Banks also...
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Proxy advisory firms and large passive mutual funds have faced criticism both for being too powerful and not exercising diligence in proxy voting. We document that the ``Big 3'' passive fund families, Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard, are increasingly likely to vote with management, and...
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This paper studies shareholder activism through environmental, social and governance (ESG) proposals over the period 1996 to 2015. Larger, more mature firms with higher institutional holdings are more easily targeted by these proposals. Target firms spend less on capital expenditure and research...
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Do informed shareholders who can influence corporate decisions improve governance? We demonstrate this may not be … shareholders to improve governance has its limits …
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