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This article analyzes the manifold situations in which the efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) has influenced—or has failed to influence—federal securities regulation and state corporate law, and the prospective roles for the EMH in these contexts. In federal securities regulation, the EMH has...
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show that informed ownership improves the quality of governance of the firm and induces value-enhancing decisions (less …
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The 2008-09 global financial crisis did not result in the failure of any major financial institution in Israel, but it did reveal vulnerabilities in the non-banking sector . particularly in the corporate-bond market. Conservative regulation of the banking sector helped this segment avoid a...
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Is greater trading liquidity good or bad for corporate governance? We address this question both theoretically and … information concerns her own plans for taking an active role in governance. We show that an increase in the liquidity of the firm … governance. Empirical tests using three distinct sources of exogenous variation in liquidity confirm the negative relation …
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This paper studies the governance of defined-benefit pension plans in the United Kingdom. We construct a governance …
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This Paper argues that shareholder activism can be considered as similar to the adoption of increasing returns-to-scale technology by financial institutions. I start from this mechanism to build a model designed to assess the long-run consequences of shareholder pressure. I then use this model...
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governance practices. We show that the presence of politically connected directors somewhat neutralizes such potential negative … effects. PC firms are associated with good governance practices such as nonduality in their chairman and chief executive …
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We present a model in which the owner of the firm enjoys a private benefit from developing a personal relationship with the executives. This may lead the owner to retain a senior executive in office even though a more productive replacement is available. The model shows that the private returns...
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governance variables on firm performance. While the linkage between internal governance mechanism and firm performance is well … established in several studies, the interaction between internal and external governance mechanism has received scanty attention …
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The aim of this article is to analyze current selected tendencies in Russian corporate governance system that have been … observed in the past few years. The corporate governance in Russia started formulating in the nineties of the 20th century as a … corporate control and capital markets. The authors also try to define the probable further changes in corporate governance …
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