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Boards, and the Directors Who Sit on Them
Boards of directors are intellectually interesting; the literature on boards has academic impact, and there is substantial scope for this
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Executive Compensation: A Survey of Theory and Evidence
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on executive compensation.
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What is the Shareholder Wealth Impact of Target CEO Retention in Private Equity Deals?
There is considerable concern about the conflict of interest between the CEO and the shareholders when a firm is a target for an acquisit
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Bringing the AGM to the 21st Century: Blockchain and Smart Contracting Tech for Shareholder Involvement
The AGM is often considered to play an important role in direct shareholder monitoring of directors and corporate blockholders.
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Governance and Stakeholders
Economic models routinely assume firms maximize shareholder value; but common law legal systems only require that officers and directors
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Can Strong Corporate Governance Selectively Mitigate the Negative Influence of 'Special Interest' Shareholder Activists? Evidence from the Labor Market for Directors
Proxy reforms shifting more power to shareholders can mitigate managerial agency problems but also empowers “special interest” activists.
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Shareholder Engagement on Environmental, Social, and Governance Performance
We study investor activism promoting environmental, social and governance (ESG) improvements by means of a proprietary dataset covering 6
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EU Company Law Harmonization Between Convergence and Varieties of Capitalism
This working paper sketches the history of EU Company Law from its beginnings in the 1960s until the present today.
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The New Bond Workouts
Bond workouts are a famously dysfunctional method of debt restructuring, ridden with opportunistic and coercive behavior by bondholders a