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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"shareholder rights"”.
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The Shareholder Movement: Shareholder Rights and Activism in 20th Century United States
“The Shareholder Movement: Shareholder Rights and Activism in 20th Century United States” – the first sustained historical study of modern American shareholder activism – investigates the loose coalition of shareholder activists united around the ideal of shareholder democracy in the middle of the …
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The Analysis of Corporate Governance Practices and Their Impact on Minority Shareholder Rights in the Thai Banking Sector
… governance practices that promote minority shareholder rights. The study examined the compliance of banks with corporate governance standards in the commercial banking sector in Thailand and the relationship between compliance, ownership types, and bank performance. Interviews with experts …
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The impact of nationalising the private shareholding of the South African Reserve Bank
… the main question. The sub-question is: are the shareholders of the SARB the owners of the Bank and what are their rights and obligations? In a nationalisation scenario the rights and obligations of the shareholders will cease to exist. Therefore, it is essential first to determine all the rights …
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Essays in Corporate Governance: Issues and Evidence from Equity Carve-Outs
… presented in Chapter 2 explores the effect of shareholder-rights protection on the performance of a sample of firms that initiated a carve-out during the period 1983-2004. Using the Gompers, Ishii, and Metrick (2003) index and Bebchuk, Cohen, and Ferrell (2004) entrenchment index, as proxies …
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Two essays on analyst bias and management entrenchment
… difficult for firms that grant investors weak shareholder rights to raise equity, and that since any difficulty in firm commitment offerings transferred to underwriters, they would ask for higher underwriting spreads to compensate for the difficulty and put more efforts to promote SEOs. …
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Shareholder appraisal rights in Swaziland - suggestions for legislative reform
… conducted based on the votes of the majority of shareholders in that company. In certain instances however, the majority might take decisions that are detrimental to the minority shareholders of the company and therefore it is imperative that any company legislation has significant protective …
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Three essays on corporate default prediction : special reference to corporate governance, default correlation and capital structure dynamics
… with high ownership concentration, low shareholder rights, low financial transparency and disclosures, and less board effectiveness. Second, in-sample and out-of-sample tests support the incremental contribution of corporate governance information on default prediction, when compared …
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Essays on corporate governance and investor disagreement
… industry performance cycles. Firms with strong shareholder rights capture higher profits than poorly-governed firms in the same industry during highly profitable periods for the industry, but both groups have similar profits during weaker industry conditions. Analyst forecasts indicate that the …
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Essays on corporate finance
… Evidence from CDS Spread Response to Shareholders’ Votes This chapter provides causal estimates in support of the hypothesis that improvements in corporate governance benefit the debtholders. By using the outcome of votes on shareholder- sponsored governance proposals at annual …
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Three Essays In Finance
… <p>Chapter One investigates the effect of legal shareholder protection on the efficiency of corporate R&D investment. The main finding is that institutional protection of shareholder benefits reduces both underinvestment and overinvestment in R&D projects. If shareholder protection rises from the …
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Essays on corporate governance and executive compensation
… consider agency theory’s prediction that a large shareholder, ”blockholder,” can serve as an effective governance mechanism when monitoring man- agers by reducing CEO dominance. However, not all blockholders are created equally. Inside blockholders with large equity stakes may be subject to CEO …
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Dueling shares: comparative EU-US corporate governance practices
… laws and guidance that related specifically to shareholder voting rights as well as a formal case study. The case study aimed to consider how companies within the EU and US across different industries have used dual-class shares and approached the one share-one vote principle. Twenty-four firms …
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Two Essays On Cross-Country Differences In Corporate Dividend Policies
… balance their dividend policies between minority shareholders' and creditors' interests to minimize the agency costs of equity and debt. We model this behavior and find strong evidence consistent with the predictions of our model. The dissertation contributes to people's understanding of such …