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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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We investigate the valuation effects of German firms targeted by hedge funds and by private equity investors. We argue that both types of investors differ from other blockholders by their strong motivation and ability to actively engage and reduce agency costs. Consequently, we find positive...
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For three academic years (2011-2014), the Harvard Law School's Shareholder Rights Project (SRP) operated a clinical program assisting institutional investors on board declassification proposals. This paper analyzes the SRP as a quasi-natural experiment to examine the value implications of...
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costs, to quantify the return to inversion for different shareholders. Foreign and tax-exempt investors, along with the … taxable shareholders. The model illustrates an agency conflict in which heterogeneity in personal taxes generates a wealth … transfer between shareholders. Furthermore, personal taxes offset the loss in government revenue by 39% …
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I investigate whether implementation of the mandatory bid rule – the rule that grants all shareholders the right to …
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.S. But we argue that outside investors in European listed firms with controlling shareholders are poorly protected compared … shareholders rather than shielding passive investors, is not well suited for controlled, listed firms. This approach translates … into a lack of definition and development of specific fiduciary duties of the controlling shareholders towards market …
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shareholders. As a result, these directors have incentives to go along with controllers' wishes, or, at least, inadequate … that allows policymakers to produce the precise balance of power between controlling shareholders and public investors that …
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This paper asks the question whether dissent votes in uncontested director elections have consequences for directors. We show that, contrary to popular belief based on prior studies, shareholder votes have power and result in negative consequences for directors. Directors facing dissent are more...
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