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This study examines whether disclosures of the terms of accounting-based debt covenants affect shareholder wealth. Specifically, I focus on market reaction at the time of the announcement of technical default. I find that firms that disclosed the terms of the covenants in prior Securities and...
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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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We collect data on the record of every action in hundreds of derivative cases and merger class actions involving public companies filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery from 2004 to 2011. We use these data to analyze how markets respond to litigation in the most important court for corporate...
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federal securities regulation. The Shareholders United Act (the “Act”) — passed by the House of Representatives as part of H … political spending, public companies poll shareholders on how they want corporate political dollars to be spent, or not spent ….The Act offers an answer to the question as a matter of corporate democracy, what do shareholders need to know about how …
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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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Purpose - The purpose of this research is to study the impact of divestitures on shareholder wealth. This study covers selloffs of publicly traded companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH region) during the period 2002-2018. It aims to understand the overall effect of selloffs on...
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The Nasdaq Stock Market's enforcement activities offer a unique setting for investigating the consequences of changes in corporate governance as evidenced by deficiency notices. We document significant negative abnormal returns in response to Nasdaq deficiency notices for audit committee and...
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David Card and Alan Krueger's Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage is perhaps the most cited comprehensive treatment of the economics of the minimum wage. One element of Card and Krueger's (1995) analysis pertains to the effect of anticipated minimum wage increases on...
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serving shareholder interests in opposing some proposals, and that the no-action letter process may be helping shareholders by …
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, we find that top-tier law firms increase the wealth of bidder shareholders by an average of 0.98% ($15.09 million), but … not that of target firm shareholders. Interestingly, we also find no evidence that the reputation of the investment bank …
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