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The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has considered climate change as a risk issue since 2010. Several emission … financial performances, especially of listed companies. There are two ways these companies can disclose their transition risk … exposure and are not alternatives. One is the explicit declaration of exposure to transition risk in the legally binding …
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This paper investigates the merger wave hypothesis for the US and the UK employing a Markov regime switching model …. Using quarterly data covering the last thirty years, for the US, we identify the beginning of a merger wave in the mid 1990s … but not the much-discussed 1980s merger wave. We argue that the latter finding can be ascribed to the refined methods of …
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risk measures for portfolios with infrequently traded securities have not been explored in the literature. We propose a … methodology to calculate market risk measures based on the Kalman filter which can be used on incomplete datasets. We implement … applied to other markets with thinly traded securities. Our methodology provides reliable market risk measures in portfolios …
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This paper argues that in revising the Takeover Bid Directive, EU policymakers should adopt a neutral approach toward … kind. Unfortunately, takeover rules cannot be crafted so as to hinder all the bad takeovers while at the same time … current EC legal framework for takeovers overall hinders takeover activity in the EU, the paper identifies three rationales …
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Farmers in India are exposed to large agriculture risks due to vagaries of nature. One of the most effective mechanisms to mitigate agricultural risks is to have a robust insurance system. Although crop insurance has been in the country since 1972, yet it has been beset with several problems...
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We study whether climate transition risk is reflected in the credit default swap (CDS) spreads of firms. Using … risk (CTR) factor, and document how this factor shifts the term structure of the CDS spreads of more vulnerable firms but … that they have asymmetric and significant economic impacts on the credit risk of more vulnerable firms, and negligible …
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disaster risk resilience (DRR). This paper tries to emphasise the importance of DRR in dealing with natural catastrophesby …. It briefly talks about synergising risk reduction efforts with sustainable development goals through the Sendai Framework …
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We analyze the impact of a 75 pct. Break-Through rule on 1,035 European firms with dual class shares. In 3-5 pct. of the firms the controlling owners incur a direct loss of control, whereas in additional 11-17 pct. of the firms the controlling owners are likely to incur a control loss. Firms in...
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Recent policy initiatives within the harmonization of European company laws have promoted a so-called "principle of proportionality" through proposals that regulate mechanisms opposing a proportional distribution of ownership and control. We scrutinize the foundation for these initiatives by...
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This paper presents a simple model for dual-class stock shares, in which common shareholders receive both public and private cash flows (i.e. dividends and any private benefit of holding voting rights) and preferred shareholders only receive public cash flows (i.e. dividends). The dual-class...
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