or stock indices. In theory, equity swaps would result in the separation of economic interests of shareholders from their …

.S. But we argue that outside investors in European listed firms with controlling shareholders are poorly protected compared … shareholders rather than shielding passive investors, is not well suited for controlled, listed firms. This approach translates … into a lack of definition and development of specific fiduciary duties of the controlling shareholders towards market …

transparency. Overall, our results suggest an expected net benefit to shareholders from the XBRL mandate …

federal securities regulation. The Shareholders United Act (the “Act”) — passed by the House of Representatives as part of H … political spending, public companies poll shareholders on how they want corporate political dollars to be spent, or not spent ….The Act offers an answer to the question as a matter of corporate democracy, what do shareholders need to know about how …

, interrogates this view of directors' fiduciary duties from the perspective of incomplete contracting theory. Building on the … seminal work of Sanford Grossman and Oliver Hart, incomplete contracting theory examines the critical role of corporate …

-voting) shareholders to veto unfavorable changes in their class rights. Based on a novel hand-collected dataset of dual class stock … significant effect of improved protection of preferred shareholders on the value of their shares. The result is robust to several …

-voting) shareholders to veto unfavorable changes in their class rights. Based on a novel hand-collected dataset of dual class stock … significant effect of improved protection of preferred shareholders on the value of their shares. The result is robust to several …