Quad O is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s methane reduction regulation that requires greater producer efficiency when methane is extracted by requiring efficient upstream, midstream, and downstream equipment. There are various times when Quad O was implemented and updated, and...

Purpose This study examines whether CEO power influences the book-based and market-based performance of Russian companies when it is restricted by the presence of essential shareholders, namely, state and influential businessmen. Design/methodology/approach Managerial power is divided into...

Regulatory information disclosure is an important measure to enhance government transparency and law enforcement credibility. Studies mainly focus on ex-post disclosure and affirm its positive effects. However, ex-ante disclosure of regulatory information, as a representative regulatory policy,...

The mandatory rotation of independent directors upon the expiration of their term is a key institutional design in China, aimed at safeguarding their independence and enhancing the effectiveness of their supervision. However, whether reappointing these directors after a "cooling-off period"...

From where does management acquire its authority to act in the name of the corporation? The orthodoxy that shareholders alone authorise management is frequently criticised for treating the corporation as the property of shareholders, rather than as a distinct legal person in its own right...

Dividends allow shareholders to receive investment returns; however, Chinese listed companies are often reluctant to share profits with external minority shareholders, instead channeling funds into "tunneling" activities of major shareholders. By examining the China Securities Investor Service...

The potential risks associated with controlling shareholders' equity pledges pose significant challenges to capital market stability and development. Therefore, effective mechanisms to constrain equity pledges have become a key focus of scholarly investigation. This study examines the impact of...

This thesis represents a qualitative study analyzing a comprehensive interview dataset of long-standing target executives, investment bankers, and activist specialists to improve our understanding of the effects of hedge fund activism on target firms. Hedge funds possess a broad set of tools to...

This study investigates the effect of government pay policy for chief executive officer's (CEO's) compensation on corporate innovation (CI). Furthermore, it explores the role of the CEO's career horizon and shareholding in this nexus. Utilizing the difference-in-differences method to analyze...

As corporate income tax rates have fallen across the world, other capital taxes become more important. This paper studies the choice between income taxation at the corporate and shareholder level. I develop a sufficient-statistics framework to determine optimal tax reforms. The main result is...

We provide a theoretical micro foundation for how much pollution (negative externalities) a firm will internalize based on the ownership distribution of its shareholders. Small shareholders, compared to large ones, want the firm to spend more on avoiding pollution since they suffer less profit...