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Over recent years, a number of regulators have launched proposals to expand the obligation to disclose major share ownership in listed companies. This paper shows that these are not stand-alone developments. Using a unique dataset comprising data from 25 countries over 11 years (1995-2005) and...
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be of little help in explaining trends in the law relating to shareholder protection, although the classification of …
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harmonisation and shareholder protection should be enhanced" …
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is based on new indices which code the development of shareholder, creditor, and worker protection in France, Germany …: the laws have converged in shareholder protection, they have diverged in worker protection and in creditor protection …
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The leximetric research on shareholder protection can contribute to core questions of comparative company law. For …
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protection of shareholders across countries reduces the scope for convergence in corporate law systems. The case-based evaluation …
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victory for data protection and the rule of law in an extremely politicised context”. This paper explains the back-ground of …
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In this paper we build a new and meaningful shareholder protection index for five countries and code the development of … countries shareholder protection has been improving in the last three decades; that the protection of minority against majority … shareholders is considerably stronger in blockholder countries and that convergence in shareholder protection is taking place since …
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questions of shareholder protection and civil procedure. The main result is that today the common law/civil divide does not … that legal systems use derivative actions as an ex-post substitute for other forms of shareholder protection; rather …, different forms of shareholder protection can be regarded as complements …
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explanations are preferable.The basis of this paper are datasets on creditor and shareholder protection in 25 countries. Part II …
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