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Compacter networks as a defensive mechanism: How firms clustered during 2015 Financial Crisis in China [PDF]
The stock market's reaction to the external risk shock is closely related to the cross-shareholding network structure. This paper takes the public information of listed companies in the A-share securities market as the primary sample to study the relationship between the stock return rate, market performance, and network topology before and after China'
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Returns to Shareholder Activism. [PDF]
This article reports a unique analysis of private engagements by an activist fund. It is based on data made available to us by Hermes, the fund manager owned by the British Telecom Pension Scheme (BTPS), on engagements with management in companies targeted by its U.K. Focus Fund (HUKFF).
Marco Becht+3 more
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35 years of socially responsible investing (SRI) research: General trends over time
This article describes 35 years of academic research into investment practices that in some way integrate a consideration of environmental, social and corporate governance issues.
S. Viviers, N. S. Eccles
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Shareholding Networks in Japan [PDF]
The Japanese shareholding network existing at the end of March 2002 is studied empirically. The network is constructed from 2,303 listed companies and 53 non-listed financial institutions. We consider this network as a directed graph by drawing edges from shareholders to stock corporations.
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Space-efficient Verifiable Secret Sharing Using Polynomial Interpolation [PDF]
Preserving data confidentiality in clouds is a key issue. Secret Sharing, a cryptographic primitive for the distribution of a secret among a group of $n$ participants designed so that only subsets of shareholders of cardinality $0 < t \leq n$ are allowed to reconstruct the secret by pooling their shares, can help mitigating and minimizing the problem ...
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Understanding and Augmenting Institutional Shareholder Activism: A Comparative Study of the UK and China [PDF]
Institutional shareholder participation has long been considered as vital to good corporate governance in the UK, and increasingly recognized as, at least potentially, an important part of Chinese corporate governance too.
GONG, BO
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Incentives to Corporate Governance Activism [PDF]
This paper considers incentives faced by investors (financial institutions) to become actively involved in the governance of under-performing companies in their portfolio as recently proposed. By considering the private benefits and the costs of investor
Leech, Dennis
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Is Dynamic Loan Loss Provisioning Necessary in Korea?
This study investigates whether dynamic loan loss provisioning is necessary in Korean banking environments. Under the dynamic provisioning rule banks are required to accumulate additional reserves to general and specific provisionings in preparation for ...
Kang, Dong soo
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The pervasive power of man-made news
Since the first woman was appointed as editor of a major newspaper in New Zealand in the mid 1980s, what has been the progress of women to top editorships? And what is the status of women at governance, management and staff journalist levels?
Judy McGregor
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Political analysis of shareholder activism in emergent democracies : a case study of Nigeria [PDF]
Shareholder activism has become a force for good in the extant corporate governance literature. In this paper, we present a case study of Nigeria, characterised by a very turbulent polity, to show how shareholder activism, as a corporate governance ...
Adegbite, Emmanuel Olakanmi+2 more
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