The market for corporate control is generally regarded as an important disciplinary mechanism in well developed economies. Entrenchment mechanisms commonly used by US firms in the form of anti-takeover provisions (ATPs) may offer some protection from disciplinary action, facilitating...

This article proposes an empirically tractable way to incorporate intra-day noise into a VWAP trading rule. In volatile markets, news arrives unexpectedly and rapidly. This should influence a trader's trading decisions. However, the literature has not incorporated such information into an...

How do firms respond to a regulatory induced increase in managerial entrenchment? We use the staggered passage of Universal Demand (UD) laws as a natural experiment with which to answer this question. Universal demand laws insulate managers from derivative litigations, thereby entrenching them...