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Good Activist/Bad Activist: The Rise of International Stewardship Codes
This paper focuses on recent trends in shareholder participation in corporate governance in a number of major developed countries.
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Mapping Types of Shareholder Lawsuits Across Jurisdictions
When corporate law scholars explore shareholder litigation abroad, they often start by looking for types of shareholder litigation famili
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Why Do Businesses Incorporate in Other EU Member States? An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Conflict of Laws Rules
Research in law, political science and economics has taken a strong interest in the way companies strategically incorporate in foreign ju
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Investing in Managerial Honesty
Two laboratory experiments show that investors perceive a CEO to be more committed to honesty when the CEO resisted, at a personal cost,
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Employment and Wage Insurance within Firms: Worldwide Evidence
If unemployment insurance is more generous, workers should demand less implicit insurance from their employers: firm- and government-prov
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Private Equity and Human Capital Risk
The social costs associated with private equity restructuring have been the subject of emotional debates.
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Takeovers and (Excess) CEO Compensation
We study if a CEO’s equity-based compensation affects the expected value generation in takeovers.
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Board Quotas and Director-Firm Matching
We study the impact of board gender quotas on the labor market for corporate directors.
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Why Do Family Business Groups Expand by Creating New Public Firms? The Role of Internal Capital Markets
In public equity markets around the world, corporations pursue distinctly different approaches to funding investment opportunities w