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Overlapping Ownership, R&D Spillovers, and Antitrust Policy
In many industries, overlapping ownership arrangements (OOAs) are prevalent in the form of cross-shareholding agreements among firms or c
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Dividends and Taxes: The Moderating Role of Agency Conflicts
The relationship between dividends and taxes continues to be an open empirical question.
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Self-commitments and the Binding Force of Self-regulation with Respect to Third Parties in Germany
Around 200 years ago Sir William Blackstone, the great commentator of English common law, used the metaphor of a shingle to describe the
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Bulgaria EU Presidency Conference
"Corporate governance towards a new culture for disclosure, transparency and anti-corruption"
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Is There a Relationship Between Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development?
Does the quality of legal and other institutions make a difference to economic development and growth?
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Roundtable on the long-term impact of institutional ownership on governance and sustainable investment
The NSE-ECGI Roundtable on ‘Long-term impact of institutional ownership on governance and sustainable investment’ took place on 13 Novemb
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Directors’ and Officers’ Liability: Economic Analysis
Directors’ and officers’ liability marks a center point of the corporate governance debate everywhere.
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The Agency Costs of Activism: Information Leakage, Thwarted Majorities, and the Public Morality
Few doubt that hedge fund activism has radically changed corporate governance in the United States -- for better or for worse.
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Beauty and Appearance in Corporate Director Elections
The impact of appearance on the outcomes of political elections is attributed in the psychology literature to an instantaneous, unreflect