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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
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The Separation of Corporate Law and Social Welfare
A half century ago, corporate legal theory pursued an institutional vision in which corporations and the law that creates them protect pe
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Global Corporate Governance Colloquium (GCGC) Meets in Tokyo
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMICS FROM TOP UNIVERSITIES MEET IN TOKYO TO DEBATE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE RESEARCH
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Global Corporate Governance Colloquium (GCGC) Meets in Harvard
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMICS FROM TOP UNIVERSITIES MEET IN HARVARD TO DEBATE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE RESEARCH