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The Life-Cycle of Dual Class Firms
IPOs of dual class shares have become popular in the recent decade, following the lead of some technological "superstars", e.g.
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Unexpected Corporate Outcomes from Hedge Fund Activism in Japan
Hedge fund activism is essentially a search by funds for investment returns by putting pressure on target firms to change their 
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Will Tenure Voting Give Corporate Managers Lifetime Tenure?
Dual-class voting systems have been widely employed in recent initial public offerings by large American tech companies, but have been ro
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International Evidence on Firm Level Decisions in Response to the Crisis: Shareholders vs. Other Stakeholders
One of the interesting features of the 2008 financial crisis is the wide range of relationships between change
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Be Careful What You Wish For: How Progress Engendered Regression in Related Party Transaction Regulation in Israel
Because of their pernicious tendency to serve as a vehicle for extracting value from firms corporate related party transactions
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Optimal Short-Termism
Corporate short-termism has often been criticized because it could harm long-term performance.
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Empirical Studies of Corporate Law and Governance: Some Steps Forward and Some Steps Not
Empirical research on topics of corporate governance has grown tremendously in the past 30 years. Much of this work has been done b
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The relationship between public listing, context, multi-nationality and internal CSR
This cross-country study focuses on internal rather than external corporate social responsibility (CSR).
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The Promise of Reward Crowdfunding
Reward crowdfunding is fundamentally different from both debt and equity crowdfunding because the provider of funds does not buy a financ