Italy

Institutional Investor Stewardship in Italian Corporate Governance

In spite of the highly concentrated ownership of listed companies, Italy is one of the countries in which institutional investors are on the rise and are playing an increasingly active role in the governance of their investee companies....

The Performance of Italian Family Firms

Italian Corporate Governance in the Last 15 Years: from Pyramids to Coalitions?

Private Law Enforcement in a Formalist Legal Environment: The Italian Sai-Fondiaria Case

Shares' Allocation and Claw Back Clauses in Italian IPOs

Modernizing Italy's Corporate Governance Institutions: Mission Accomplished?

Stabilization Activity in Italian IPOs

Efficiency of Share-Voting Systems: Report on Italy

Lockup Clauses in Italian IPOs

Institutional Investor Activism in a Context of Concentrated Ownership and High Private Benefits of Control: the Case of Italy

This is a draft chapter for a forthcoming volume, The Research Handbook on Shareholder Power, edited by Randall Thomas and Jennifer Hill (Cheltenham:Edgar Elgar). This chapter describes the experience with activist institutional...

Regulation and self-regulation of related party transactions in Italy: An empirical analysis

This paper assesses how Italian companies have implemented the regulation on related party transactions enacted by Consob in 2010. Companies have been given some degree of freedom in devising their internal codes: they may ?opt-up? or...

Do Market Abuse Rules Violate Human Rights? The Grande Stevens v. Italy Case

The 2014 decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case ?Grande Stevens and Others v. Italy? raises numerous complex issues concerning the regulation of market abuses in Italy, Europe, and also in other systems. The...