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Activism and Takeovers
Hostile takeovers have long been considered the quintessential disciplinary governance mechanism, but a similarly confrontational strateg
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Opportunity Makes a Thief: Corporate Opportunities as Legal Transplant and Convergence in Corporate Law
The paper surveys the corporate opportunities doctrine in four jurisdictions: the US, the UK, Germany, and France.
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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 shin
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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.