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Political connection heterogeneity and firm value in Vietnam
Phuoc Vu Ha; Frömmel, Michael - In: Cogent business & management 7 (2020) 1, pp. 1-17
The observation of firms’ political connections (PCs) in both types of ascribed and acquired PCs has raised the question of their benefits to firms’ operation. Based on 1,365 Vietnamese listed firm-year observations from 2010 to 2014, we find that although firms with both ascribed and...
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
This paper examines the origins of investor protection under the common law by analysing the development of shareholder … protection in Victorian Britain, the home of the common law. In this era, very little was codified, with corporate law simply … suggesting a default template of rules. Ultimately, the matter of protection was one for the corporation and its shareholders …
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
This paper examines the origins of investor protection under the common law by analysing the development of shareholder … protection in Victorian Britain, the home of the common law. In this era, very little was codified, with corporate law simply … suggesting a default template of rules. Ultimately, the matter of protection was one for the corporation and its shareholders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523499
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As American as Apple Inc. : international tax and ownership nationality
Sanchirico, Chris William - 2014
The ownership nationality of large US multinational companies plays an implicit but important role in the current debate over how such companies should be taxed. This paper identifies that role and investigates what is actually known about where these companies’ shareholders reside
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Quantifying foreign institutional block ownership at publicly traded U.S. corporations
Coates, John C.; Fein, Ronald A.; Crenny, Kevin; Dong, … - 2016
This short technical report provides an empirical analysis of the level of institutional block ownership overall, and of foreign block ownership, at a broad set of publicly traded corporations. Disclosed institutional blockholders of every company in the Standard & Poor's 500 index are analyzed,...
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Stock market returns, corporate governance and capital market equilibrium
Parigi, Bruno; Pelizzon, Loriana; Thadden, Ernst-Ludwig von - 2013
This paper proposes a theoretical model that incorporates corporate governance into the basic CAPM, where corporate governance affects the disutility of managerial effort and the possibility of managers to divert company resources. It shows that corporate governance affects firms’ stock...
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The Evolution of Ownership Disclosure Rules Across Countries
Schouten, Michael C.; Siems, Mathias - 2011
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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To Be[nefit] or Not to Be[nefit] : Lessons from Global Corporate Governance and a Principled Path for the Delaware Public Benefit Corporation
O'Neal, Patrick - 2023
With ESG and conscious capitalism dominating boardroom conversations across America, Delaware’s adoption of the Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) has been a recent attempt to support this movement by offering a new form of corporate governance that seeks to create a positive impact on society...
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Dual Class Stock
Fisch, Jill E.; Davidoff Solomon, Steven - 2023
This chapter examines dual class common stock. Dual class stock has evolved from a vehicle used largely by insiders in family owned and media companies to retain control into a popular capital structure for founders and initial shareholders in technology start-ups. After briefly reviewing the...
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Mixed Ownership Reform and Corporate Governance in China’s State-Owned Enterprises
Wang, Jiangyu - 2020
This Article provides an early assessment of the impact on corporate governance of the most recent wave of SOE reform announced by the CCP in 2013, officially known as the mixed-ownership reform (MOR). It offers a comprehensive and detailed account of the background, policy and regulatory...
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