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Shareholder access to the ballot

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2003

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Symposium on Corporate Elections

Bebchuk, Lucian A. (contributor) - Symposium on Corporate Elections <2003, Cambridge, Mass.> - 2003

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The case for increasing shareholder power

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2004

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Corporate governance and the plight of minority shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression

Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent - 2004

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The Business Roundtable's untenable case against shareholder access

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2005

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Designing a shareholder access rule

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2004

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Mavericks, Universal, and Common Owners - the Largest Shareholders of U.S. Public Firms

Amel-Zadeh, Amir; Kasperk, Fiona; Schmalz, Martin C. - 2022

We construct a novel data set to show that, between 2003-2020, up to one-fifth of America’s largest firms had a non-financial blockholder or insider as their largest shareholder. Blockholders and insiders tend to be less diversified than institutional investors. Measures of “universal” and...

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Shareholder Proposal Rules and Practice : Evidence from a Comparison of the US and UK

Buchanan, Bonnie - 2015

device than US counterparts since they are binding and UK shareholders have the statutory right to call special meetings and … small shareholders and social proposals dominate the proposing scene of the US. Our results suggest that shareholders can … impact the corporate governance and firm performance but that the methods through which shareholders are empowered are …

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Are Shareholder Proposals an Important Corporate Governance Device? Evidence from US and UK Shareholder Proposals

Buchanan, Bonnie - 2015

In the past decade, as a result of many interrelated changes in the economic environment, the role and the pressures on the corporate governance of firms have been significantly transformed in the US and the UK. To test the magnitude of this changed environment, we study one aspect of corporate...

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Proxy Rules and Proxy Practices : An Empirical Study of US and UK Shareholder Proposals

Buchanan, Bonnie - 2015

In May 2009, the SEC proposed the most significant amendments to proxy rules since 1942. We build comprehensive samples of US and UK shareholder proposals for the period 2000-2006 to study the relation between proxy rules and proxy practices and the effect of shareholder proposals on firm...

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