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Director Share Ownership and Corporate Performance - Evidence from Australia

Farrer, Jonathan; Ramsay, Ian - 2011

An important and controversial corporate governance issue is the extent to which share ownership by directors increases corporate performance. Some commentators suggest that increasing directors' shareholdings in their companies provides directors with the incentive to improve corporate...

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An Empirical Investigation of Australian Share Buybacks

Harris, Thomas; Ramsay, Ian - 2006

Australia. Until 1989, they were prohibited. In this article we undertake the first empirical investigation of Australian share … undertaken in Australia. We then discuss reasons why companies undertake buybacks and, as part of this discussion, survey the …

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Australia’s Product Intervention Power and Protection from Consumer Harm : An Evaluation

O'Brien, Lucinda; Ramsay, Ian; Ali, Paul - 2022

that the power is a valuable addition to Australia’s consumer protection framework, it identifies several measures that …

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Takeover Dispute Resolution in Australia and the United States – Takeovers Panel or Courts?

Ramsay, Ian - 2015

have these disputes resolved by Takeovers Panels. The countries with these Panels include Australia, the United Kingdom … the respective merits of the resolution of takeover disputes by a Takeovers Panel and the courts using data from Australia …

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Commercial Litigation in Australia : An Empirical Study

Lamba, Asjeet S. - 2015

There is significant interest in the volume of litigation before the courts. This will have important implications for the resources that the courts need to deal with this ligation. Although there is an increasing amount of information available about matters before the courts, little is known...

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Employee Share Schemes : Regulation and Policy

Landau, Ingrid - 2011

consequence of discouraging the growth of broad-based employee share ownership in Australia. After a series of consultative … the paper provides background by briefly outlining current evidence on broad-based employee share schemes in Australia. In … Part III, we explain the extent to which these schemes have received support from Australia's two major political parties …

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The Costs of Corporate Litigation in Australia

Lamba, Asjeet S. - 2011

This paper presents the results of a study that measures the costs associated with litigation for plaintiff and defendant companies for a sample of companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. The study uses event study methodology to examine the effects of litigation initiation...

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The Evolution of Shareholder and Creditor Protection in Australia : An International Comparison

Anderson, Helen L. - 2012

Australia there was a sustained upward trend in shareholder protection, but not in the case of creditor protection. Compared to …

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