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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"shareholder proposals"”.
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Do classified boards protect top management? : evidence from shareholder proposals
… a panel regression discontinuity design to shareholder proposals on board declassification. We focus on shareholder proposals that pass or fail by a small margin of votes in order to provide a causal estimate of the impact of board declassification. We find that shareholder proposal approval …
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Essays in financial economics
… between corporate social responsibility (CSR), shareholder value, and competition by applying a regression discontinuity design to the outcome of CSR shareholder proposals. The approval of CSR proposals generates positive abnormal returns on the vote date, increases CSR scores, increases market …
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Essays on Mergers and Acquisitions and Governance
… and not only creates losses to the acquirer shareholders but also decreases total expected synergies. This evidence is consistent with the managerial entrenchment hypothesis; more centrally positioned bidder CEOs are insulated from both the disciplinary market for corporate control and the …
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Activists who win: the effect of activist identity on shareholder voting
This thesis examines the effect of shareholder activist identity on voting outcomes within the context of shareholder proposals and what explains that effect. The extant literature broadly assumes shareholder homogeneity and has focused on the relationship between activists and target firms. In …
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Essays on Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
… ownership stakes by passive investors influence shareholders’ activism in the form of shareholder proposals. We find a positive association between passive ownership and the total number of proposals initiated, proposals with different types of sponsors, the rate of proposal withdrawal, vote-for …
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Essays on ESG Dynamics in Financial Markets
… interlock, and industrial peers. Based on E&S shareholder proposals targeting S&P 500 firms from 2005 to 2020, I find that E&S concerns (the ‘disease’) will die out after several waves. Besides, firms that are more central in the network, firms with larger market capitalization, and firms with …