Using a parsimonious measure of investor protection constructed from fund organizational characteristics, this paper … documents that companies targeted by activists with better investor protection structures outperform those targeted by poor-investor-protection … suggests that funds with better investor protection achieve increased profitability and valuation ratio of their targets by …

Lösungsentwicklung bei."Investor Protection During Regular Delisting": The author demonstrates that, under the provisions of 39 …

investor protection laws in Britain c.1900 to test the influential law and finance hypothesis. Our evidence suggests that there … was not a close correlation between financial development and investor protection laws c.1900 and that the size of the UK …’s share market is a puzzle given the paucity of statutory investor protection. To illustrate that Britain was not unique in …

governance depends on shareholder rights in a given country. In countries with stronger investor protection, governance and short …

whether investor protection moderates the effect of corporate board gender diversity on corporate cash holdings. Using 20 … exhibit low corporate cash holdings. Furthermore, firms in countries with high levels of investor protection have low … in high-level investor protection countries than in low-level investor protection countries. Our results are robust to …

weak investor protection. Despite these problems, new ventures could raise large amounts of equity and debt on the Belgian …