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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"shareholder voting"”.
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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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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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Essays in Financial and Theoretical Economics
… Investor may offer a share price to acquire voting rights over a corporate motion. The selling and voting decisions of each initial shareholder (with imperfect, private information about the firm’s value of the motion) depend on the private information held, but the selling decision also …
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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 …
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Funds Have More to Say in Cross-border Monitoring
… PhD thesis, three studies were conducted on the voting activism of U.S. mutual fund managers in cross-border settings. The studies delve into the challenges U.S. mutual fund managers encounter in cross-border voting, the coordination among fund managers that helps overcome voting barriers and …