Vital in preserving managerial accountability, the firmly established one share, one vote rule provides shareholders … Exchange (NYSE) embraced the one share, one vote model, and its leadership continues to emphasize the rule as good for … share, one vote rule is dependent upon the will of Congress. This article, after reviewing the rule's controversial …

sunset after a fixed period of time (such as ten or fifteen years) unless their extension is approved by shareholders …

'One-share, one-vote,' a bedrock principle of Anglo-Saxon corporate governance, is back in the spotlight. Except this …-termism in the financial markets, prominent commentators have advocated bolstering the voting rights of long-term shareholders or … preparing a proposal to give 'loyal' shareholders extra voting influence.This commentary discusses the case for departing from …

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of blockholders (large shareholders) in …

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 … rights. We find a negative relation between the value of the voting right and the preferred shareholders' wealth for …

This is the first comprehensive study of the distribution of voting rights to shareholders. Only those owning stock on …

in Europe and Latin America, where several governments are large shareholders in a variety of public firms. In a sense …, the subprime crisis induced these governments to behave as active large shareholders. This paper uses a sample of public … firms in Brazil to show that government activism lowers the value of minority shareholders' voting rights. While the …