Agency Costs, Charitable Trusts, and Corporate Control: Evidence from...
Editor’s Note: This post is from Robert Sitkoff of Harvard Law School. I recently posted my new article, Agency Costs, Charitable Trusts, and Corporate Control: Evidence from Hershey’s Kiss-Off, with...
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Editor’s Note: The post below comes to us from Andriy Bodnaruk of the University of Maastricht, Massimo Massa of INSEAD, and Andrei Simonov of the Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR. We have...
View ArticleFamily Control of Firms and Industries
Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Belén Villalonga of Harvard Business School. Recently, in the Law, Economics, and Organization Seminar here at the Law School, I presented my paper,...
View ArticleCorporate Ownership and Control: British Business Transformed
Editor’s Note: This post is by Brian R. Cheffins of the University of Cambridge. U.K. corporate governance is characterized by a separation of ownership and control, in the sense that a majority of...
View ArticleSatisficing Contracts
Editor’s Note: This post comes from Patrick Bolton of Columbia Business School. In my working paper Satisficing Contracts which I recently presented at the Law, Economics and Organizations Workshop...
View ArticleOwnership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing
Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from Chen Lin, Professor of Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Yue Ma, Professor of Economics at Lingnan University, Hong Kong; Paul...
View ArticleCreditor Control Rights, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value
Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from Greg Nini of the Insurance and Risk Management Department at the University of Pennsylvania, David Smith of the School of Commerce at the University...
View ArticleDerivatives Trading and Negative Voting
Editor’s Note: Holger Spamann is an assistant professor at Harvard Law School. Securities regulators, practitioners, and legal commentators worry that derivatives may provide shareholders and creditors...
View ArticleA Theory of Empty Voting and Hidden Ownership
Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from Jordan M. Barry, Associate Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, John William Hatfield, Assistant Professor of Political...
View ArticleTaxing Control
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Richard M. Hynes, Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law. Early corporate law scholarship argued both that anti-takeover devices are...
View ArticleHow Costly Is Corporate Bankruptcy for Top Executives?
Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from B. Espen Eckbo, Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College; Karin Thorburn, Professor of Finance at the Norwegian School...
View ArticleThe Separation of Investments and Management
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View ArticlePiercing the Corporate Veil
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View ArticleCreeping Acquisitions in Europe
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Luca Enriques, Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law at University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, and Matteo Gatti of Rutgers School of Law–Newark....
View ArticleAgency Costs, Charitable Trusts, and Corporate Control: Evidence from...
Editor's Note: This post is from Robert Sitkoff of Harvard Law School. I recently posted my new article, Agency Costs, Charitable Trusts, and Corporate Control: Evidence from Hershey’s Kiss-Off, with...
View ArticleDo Investment Banks Advising on M&A Deals Misuse Confidential Information?
Editor's Note: The post below comes to us from Andriy Bodnaruk of the University of Maastricht, Massimo Massa of INSEAD, and Andrei Simonov of the Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR. We have...
View ArticleFamily Control of Firms and Industries
Editor's Note: This post comes to us from Belén Villalonga of Harvard Business School. Recently, in the Law, Economics, and Organization Seminar here at the Law School, I presented my paper,...
View ArticleCorporate Ownership and Control: British Business Transformed
Editor's Note: This post is by Brian R. Cheffins of the University of Cambridge. U.K. corporate governance is characterized by a separation of ownership and control, in the sense that a majority of...
View ArticleThe Value of Creditor Control in Corporate Bonds
Posted by Oguzhan Karakas, Boston College, on Thursday, June 23, 2016 Editor's Note: Oğuzhan Karakaş is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. This post...
View ArticleThe Value of Creditor Control in Corporate Bonds
Posted by Oğuzhan Karakaş, Boston College, on Sunday, July 31, 2016 Editor's Note: Oğuzhan Karakaş is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Boston College. This post is based on an article authored by...
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