The Dodd Frank Act (2010) empowered shareholders by mandating non-binding voting on executive compensation. This paper investigates the determinants of shareholder dissent on the say-on-pay proposal. Data on S&P1500 firms between 2010 and 2012 reveal various findings. First, fewer than 3% of...

Die ökonomische Bedeutung der Organhaftung im nationalen Aktienrecht -- Der Einfluss von D&O-Versicherungen auf die Organhaftung -- Die materiell-rechtliche Organhaftung de lege lata -- Das Haftungsdurchsetzungsdefizit, seine Ursachen und die Konsequenzen -- Die Reform der Aktionärsklage als...

Since the early 1980s, governments worldwide have taken many measures to expand the role of markets. Recent political events reflect widespread disenchantment with neoliberal policies, but it remains doubtful whether populist leaders will deliver the market restraints that many of their voters...

We use events related to a proxy access rule passed by the SEC in 2010 (but never implemented) as natural experiments to study the valuation effects of exogenous changes in the degree of shareholder control. We find that increases (decreases) in perceived control have positive (negative)...

Shareholder liability was once discussed only in terms of liability for the debts of the corporation in which the shareholders hold interest. That is now a shifting scene, influenced in the main by the emergence of shareholder activism and derivative litigation, with its attendant increase of...

Forderungen nach mehr Aktionärsdemokratie finden zunehmende gesellschaftliche und auch akademische Akzeptanz. Der Beitrag erläutert, weswegen sie dennoch falsch sind, und empfiehlt eine Rückbesinnung auf die Kernelemente der Board Primacy im Falle anstehender Aktienrechtsrevisionen.