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What Makes the Bonding Stick? A Natural Experiment Testing the Legal Bonding Hypothesis
Securities fraud class actions are a key feature of the US regime of corporate governance.
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Connected Firms and Investor Myopia
Conglomerates, multinational corporations and business groups are non-exclusive forms of complex firms.
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The Dialogue between the Chairman of the Board and Investors: The Practice in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany and the Future of the German Corporate Governance Code Under the New Chairman
The dialogue of the board and its chairman with investors is an established practice in many countries, such as the United Kingdom, the U
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Prospectus Liability and the Role of Gatekeepers as Informational Intermediaries: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of the Statutory Provisions on Italian IPOs
This Article analyzes market reaction to the introduction into Italian legislation of a statutory system of (IPO) prospectus civil liabil
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Standing Voting Instructions: Empowering the Excluded Retail Investor
Despite the increasing importance of shareholder voting, regulators have paid little attention to the rights of retail investors who own
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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