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Independent Directors and Controlling Shareholders
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 Independent directors are an important feature of modern corporate law. Courts and lawmakers around the world increasingly rely on these directors to protect investors from controlling shareholder opportunism. In this Article, we argue that the existing director-election regime significantly undermines the ability of independent directors to ...
Bebchuk, Lucian A., Hamdani, Assaf
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Incentives for Partial Acquisitions and Real Market Concentration [PDF]
We analyze the incentives of a controlling shareholder of a firm to acquire, directly or indirectly through his firm, shares in a competitor. We charaterize the conditions under which these partial acquisitions as well as the equilibrium toehold and its ...
Marie-Cécile Fagart +2 more
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Corporate Governance and Market Valuation in China [PDF]
, 2002 This paper studies the relationship between the governance mechanisms and the market valuation of publicly listed firms in China empirically. We construct measures for corporate governance mechanisms and measures of market valuation for all publicly ...
Bai, Chong-En +4 more
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Polyelectrolyte Design Principles for Electrophoretic Drug Delivery
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Structure–property–function mapping of polyelectrolytes reveals how composition and nanoscale order control on‐demand electrophoretic drug transport. Charge density quantified under implant‐relevant conditions shows that encapsulation limits swelling, enabling high effective charge density.
Helena Saarela Unemo +8 more
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MIX: Jurnal Ilmiah Manajemen, 2017 . The concentrated ownership structure that occurred in Indonesia led to the agency conflicts between the controlling shareholder and the non-controlling shareholder will lead expropriation.
Dewi Diah Fakhriyyah +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While ESG (environmental, social, and governance) is emphasized among listed companies for their stakeholders and ESG disclosures, ESG engagement among unlisted companies has been rarely examined due to data limitations. This is particularly problematic for the agri‐food industry that has significant impacts on the environment and consists ...
Ying Wang, Satoru Shimokawa
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Shareholder Protection, Stock Market Development, and Politics [PDF]
This paper presents a political economy model where there is mutual feedback between investor protection and stock market development. Better investor protection induces companies to issue more equity and thereby leads to a broader stock market. In turn,
Marco Pagano, Paolo Volpin
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Transparency of ownership and control in Germany [PDF]
, 1999 We first analyze legal provisions relating to corporate transparency in Germany. We show that despite the new securities trading law (WpHG) of 1995, the practical efficacy of disclosure regulation is very low.
Becht, Marco, Boehmer, Ekkehart
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For adults with intellectual disability and their families, future planning and moving out of the family home in Australia will increasingly occur within the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As a market‐based, individualised funding system its impact on this transition remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a
I. Belperio +5 more
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How Laws Affect Contracts: Evidence from Yankee Bond Covenants [PDF]
We examine how country-level legal and institutional differences in creditor and shareholder rights shape the use of bond covenants. Using comprehensive debt covenant information for a sample of Yankee bonds issued by firms from more than 50 countries ...
John Wald, Lukas Roth, Yaxuan Qi
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