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1by Marco Becht Julian Franks Colin Mayer Stefano Rossi Published in The Review of financial studies (01.08.2009)“...This article reports a unique analysis of private engagements by an activist fund. It is based on data made available to us by Hermes, the fund manager owned...”
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2“...Shareholder voting on corporate acquisitions is controversial. In most countries, acquisition decisions are delegated to boards, and shareholder approval is...”
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3by Marco Becht Julian Franks Colin Mayer Stefano Rossi Published in The Review of financial studies (01.03.2010)“...This article reports a unique analysis of private engagements by an activist fund. It is based on data made available to us by Hermes, the fund manager owned...”
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4by Marco Becht Julian Franks Jeremy Grant Hannes F. Wagner Published in The Review of financial studies (01.09.2017)“...This paper provides evidence on the incidence, characteristics, and performance of activist engagements across countries. We find that the incidence of...”
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5by Marco Becht Patrick Bolton Ailsa Röell Published in Oxford review of economic policy (01.10.2011)“...This paper reviews the pattern of bank failures during the financial crisis and asks whether there was a link with corporate governance. It revisits the theory...”
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6by Becht, Marco Polo, Andrea Rossi, Stefano Published in Journal of Applied Corporate Finance (Winter 2019)“...A large number of studies have shown that many companies have made large acquisitions that their own shareholders probably would not have approved if given the...”
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7by Becht, Marco Franks, Julian Grant, Jeremy Wagner, Hannes Published in Journal of Applied Corporate Finance (Winter 2019)“...In this summary of their recent article in the Review of Financial Studies, the authors provide an overview of the methods and findings of the first...”
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8“...We preview empirical work by the European Corporate Governance Network on the size of block shareholdings in Europe. The most salient finding is the...”
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9by Becht, Marco Kamisarenka, Yuliya Pajuste, Anete Published in The Journal of law & economics (01.08.2020)“...The contractual theory of the firm predicts that companies adopt charters that maximize firms’ value regardless of the default rule. We test this proposition...”
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10by Becht, Marco Published in European economic review (1999)“...Ownership dispersion is a pre-requisite for liquid stock markets, but it entails a collective action problem: individual investors have no incentives to engage...”
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11“...Corporate governance is one of the most topical and controversial areas of business and finance. This article provides an overview of the questions that it...”
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13The Control of Corporate Europe“...Written by an international team of authors, this book provides the first systematic account of the control of corporate Europe based on voting block data...”
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14“...Corporate control in Germany has received considerable attention in the law and economics literature. However, the absence of disclosure provisions comparable...”
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15“...This paper compares two similar samples of mining and steel corporations in pre-World War I Germany: one sample consists of corporations that were affiliated...”
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16by Becht, Marco Mayer, Colin Wagner, Hannes F Published in Journal of corporate finance (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (2008)“...We study how deregulation of corporate law affects the decision of entrepreneurs of where to incorporate. Recent rulings by the European Court of Justice (ECJ)...”
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17“...Data from the EU's Large Holdings Directive (88/627/EEC) allow detailed analyses of the control of European corporations to be undertaken for the first time...”
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