We develop and test a model of debt structure and pricing in leveraged buyouts (LBOs). The model accounts for both market and firm specific variables and illustrates how collateral, security and seniority, as well as target future cash-flows and market interest rates determine the cost of...

We test the impact of firms' corporate governance structures (G) on firms' environmental performance (E) using a sample of 3,293 firms from 41 countries. We find that better governance, measured using a variety of metrics, improves firms' environmental performance. Contemporary governance...

Shareholders of U.S. corporations have lost billions of dollars in acquisitions they never approved. In the United Kingdom the listing rules give shareholders a binding say when targets are large relative to acquirers. A transatlantic comparison suggests that if U.S. shareholders had a say on...