“...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...”

“...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...”

“...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...”

“...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...”

“...The contractual theory of the firm predicts that companies adopt charters that maximize firms’ value regardless of the default rule. We test this proposition...”

“...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...”

“...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...”

“...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...”

“...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...”