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Teams and Bankruptcy
Corporate bankruptcies constitute an important mechanism through which the economy rids itself of obsolete firms and allocates their cons
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Centros and Defensive Regulatory Competition: Some Thoughts and a Glimpse at the Data
Before Centros, many EU Member States used the “real seat theory” to hinder regulatory arbitrage.
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The Firms’ Reaction to Changes in the Governance Preferences of Active Institutional Owners
Institutional investors are becoming increasingly influential on firm policies.
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Toward a Mission Statement for Mutual Funds in Shareholder Litigation
Mutual funds own approximately 30 percent of the U.S.
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Managerial Response to Shareholder Empowerment: Evidence from Majority Voting Legislation Changes
This paper studies managerial reaction to shareholder empowerment that strengthens shareholder voting, a form of direct democracy.
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Tunneling Through Group Trademarks
A trademark is a type of intellectual property comprising a recognizable word, phrase, symbol, and/or design that distinguishes products
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Earnings Management around Founder CEO Re-appointments and Successions in Family Firms
Earnings management consists of a firm’s insiders cooking the books, that is, manipulating reported earnings via discretionary accruals a
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Does Board Gender Diversity Affect Renewable Energy Consumption?
To the best of our knowledge this is the first study to investigate whether the presence of female directors in the boardrooms of US corp