SSRN Corporate Governance: Acquisitions, Mergers, Contests for Control, & Activism eJournal

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Applied Mergers and Acquisitions

Robert F. Bruner, APPLIED MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 31 May 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Robert F. Bruner

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Downloads 10,699

2.

Shareholder Activism and Corporate Governance in the United States

As published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, vol. 3, pp. 459-465, 1998

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 05 Dec 1997

Accepted Paper Series

Bernard S. Black

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 9,061

3.

Economists' Hubris - The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions

Journal of Financial Transformation, Vol. 26, pp. 4-12, 2009

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 18 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Shahin Shojai

Capco Institute

Downloads 7,394

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A Century of Corporate Takeovers: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Stand? (previous title: The History of M&A Activity Around the World: A Survey of Literature)

Journal of Banking and Finance, 2008, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 97/2005

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 06 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Marina Martynova and Luc Renneboog

Cornerstone Research and Tilburg University - Department of Finance

Downloads 7,222

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The Evolution of Shareholder Activism in the United States

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 28 Jan 2007

Working Paper Series

Stuart Gillan and Laura T. Starks

University of Georgia - Department of Finance and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance

Downloads 6,155

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Does M&A Pay? (Chapter 3)

Robert F. Bruner, APPLIED MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Aug 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Robert F. Bruner

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Downloads 6,010

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The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Target Companies: A Survey of Empirical Findings

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 01 Mar 2006

Working Paper Series

Jonathan M. Karpoff

University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business

Downloads 4,942

8.

El valor de las Acciones sin Voto: un caso real (The Value of Non-Voting Shares)

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 24 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 02 May 2016

Working Paper Series

Pablo Fernandez, Javier Aguirreamalloa and Luis Corres Avendaño

University of Navarra - IESE Business School, IESE Business School and IESE

Downloads 4,819

9.

Systemic Risk and Hedge Funds

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4535-05, EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings Paper, AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 111 Posted: 07 Mar 2005

Working Paper Series

Nicholas T. Chan, Mila Getmansky, Shane M. Haas and Andrew W. Lo

AlphaSimplex Group, LLC, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance, AlphaSimplex Group, LLC and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,622

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Less Is More: Making Shareholder Activism A Valued Mechanism Of Corporate Governance

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 241; and Yale ICF Working Paper No. 00-10; Yale SOM Working Paper No. ICF - 00-10

Number of pages: 142 Posted: 22 Jun 2000

Working Paper Series

Roberta Romano

Yale Law School

Downloads 4,482

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The Takeover Directive as a Protectionist Tool?

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 141/2010

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 01 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2010

Working Paper Series

Paul L. Davies, Edmund‐Philipp Schuster and Emilie van de Walle de Ghelcke

University of Oxford- Faculty of Law, London School of Economics - Law Department and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Downloads 4,078

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The One Share - One Vote Debate: A Theoretical Perspective

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 176/2007

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 01 Jun 2007

Working Paper Series

Mike Burkart and Samuel Lee

Swedish House of Finance and Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business

Downloads 3,959

13.

Takeover Bids Vs. Proxy Fights in Contests for Corporate Control

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 04/2002, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 336

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Apr 2003 Last Revised: 08 May 2009

Working Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Oliver Hart

Harvard Law School and Harvard University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,841

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Acqui-Hiring

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 63, p. 281, 2013, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2040924

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 16 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2013

Accepted Paper Series

John F. Coyle and Gregg D. Polsky

University of North Carolina School of Law and University of Georgia School of Law

Downloads 3,830

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Public-to-Private Transactions: LBOs, MBOs, MBIs and IBOs

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 94/2005, CentER Discussion Paper No. 2005-98

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 05 Sep 2005

Working Paper Series

Tomas Simons and Luc Renneboog

McKinsey & Co. Inc. - Amsterdam Office and Tilburg University - Department of Finance

Downloads 3,589

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Learning and the Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns

Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 108, No. 2, pp. 323-348, May 2013, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 667

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 14 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles C. Y. Wang

Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Harvard Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,147

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Effect of Financial Crisis over Mergers and Acquisitions in GCC Countries

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 Mar 2009

Working Paper Series

Dr. Krishnamurthy Ravichandran

King Saud University

Downloads 3,110

18.

Mergers & Acquisitions in Indian Banking Sector

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Nov 2012

Working Paper Series

Chirag Aggarwal, Rachit Sachdeva, Harjeet Singh and Neeraj Garg

University of Delhi, University of Delhi, University of Delhi and University of Delhi

Downloads 2,919

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Deals from Hell: M&A Lessons That Rise Above the Ashes

Robert F. Bruner, DEALS FROM HELL: M&A LESSONS THAT RISE ABOVE THE ASHES, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 May 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Robert F. Bruner

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Downloads 2,848

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Shareholder Rights and Shareholder Activism: The Role of the General Meeting of Shareholders

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 188/2012

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2012

Working Paper Series

Christoph Van der Elst

Tilburg Law School

Downloads 2,781

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Two-Stage Spinoff Asset Impairment Theory

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2012

Working Paper Series

Ted F. Azarmi and David Marutschke

University of Tuebingen and Soka University, Faculty of Business Administration

Downloads 2,746

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Did Corporate Governance 'Fail' During the 2008 Stock Market Meltdown? The Case of the S&P 500

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 124/2009

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 04 May 2009 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2010

Working Paper Series

Brian R. Cheffins

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,668

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Thirty Years of Shareholder Rights and Firm Valuation

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 04 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Martijn Cremers and Allen Ferrell

University of Notre Dame and Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,632

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Merger & Acquisition in India: An Analytical Study

National Conference on Business Innovation conducted by Apeejay Institute of Management, Jalandhar-144001, Punjab, February 27, 2010

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 23 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Harpreet Singh Bedi

Lovely Professional University

Downloads 2,618

25.

Shareholder Voting and Corporate Governance

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2010

Working Paper Series

David Yermack

New York University (NYU) - Stern School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,479

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A Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions

AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 23 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2009

Working Paper Series

Malcolm P. Baker, Xin Pan and Jeffrey Wurgler

Harvard Business School, Harvard University and NYU Stern School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,432

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The Agency Costs of Agency Capitalism: Activist Investors and the Revaluation of Governance Rights

Columbia Law Review, 2013 (Forthcoming), ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 197, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 438, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 130

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 24 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 31 May 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Ronald J. Gilson and Jeffrey N. Gordon

Stanford Law School and Columbia Law School

Downloads 2,412

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Shareholders' Say on Pay: Does it Create Value?

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming, Drexel College of Business Research Paper No. 2008-06

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 20 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Jie Cai and Ralph A. Walkling

Drexel University and Drexel University - Lebow College of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,146

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The Importance of Industry Links in Merger Waves

Journal of Finance, 2014, vol. 69(2): 527-576.

Number of pages: 159 Posted: 14 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Kenneth R. Ahern and Jarrad Harford

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Washington

Downloads 2,076

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Do Investment Banks Matter for M&A Returns?

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 24, No. 7, pp. 2286-2315, July 2011, EFA 2007 Ljubljana Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Jack Bao and Alex Edmans

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting

Downloads 1,990

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Documenting the Deal: How Quality Control and Candor Can Improve Boardroom Decision-Making and Reduce the Litigation Target Zone

Forthcoming, The Business Lawyer, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 794

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 25 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Leo E. Strine Jr.

Government of the State of Delaware - Supreme Court of Delaware

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,974

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The Case Against Shareholder Empowerment

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 158, p. 653, 2010, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-35, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 1480290

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 01 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2010

Working Paper Series

William W. Bratton and Michael L. Wachter

University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School - Institute for Law and Economics

Downloads 1,926

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Corporate Governance and Hedge Fund Activism

Review of Derivatives Research, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2011

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 21 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Nicole M. Boyson and Robert M. Mooradian

Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business and Northeastern University, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Finance Area

Downloads 1,908

34.

Mergers in Indian Banking Sector Benefits and Motives

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Sep 2009

Working Paper Series

Akhil Bhan

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 1,839

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Lost in Translation? The Effect of Cultural Values on Mergers Around the World

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 117, No. 1, 2015

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 01 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Kenneth R. Ahern, Daniele Daminelli and Cesare Fracassi

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Politecnico di Milano - Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and University of Texas at Austin

Downloads 1,814

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Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions in India

Corporate Law Advisor, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 Aug 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Sayantan Gupta

Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur, India

Downloads 1,798

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A Study of Mergers & Acquisitions in Aviation Industry in India and Their Impact on the Operating Performance and Shareholder Wealth

Emerging Markets: Finance eJournal, Vol. 4, Issue 39, April 09, 2012., Corporate Finance: Governance, Corporate Control & Organization eJournal , Vol. 4, Issue 63, April 05, 2012

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Nisarg A Joshi and Dr.Jay Desai

Shri Chimanbhai Patel Institute of Management & Research and B.K.School of Business Management, Gujarat University

Downloads 1,764

38.

Playing It Safe? Managerial Preferences, Risk, and Agency Conflicts

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 14 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Todd A. Gormley and David A. Matsa

Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Downloads 1,760

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Fusioni orizzontali (Horizontal Mergers)

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 06 May 2013 Last Revised: 06 May 2017

Working Paper Series

Maria-Augusta Miceli

University of Rome

Downloads 1,744

40.

Liberbank: expropiación ilegal de €484 millones. (Liberbank: Preferred Without Preference. An Expropriation of About €484 Million)

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 16 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Pablo Fernandez

University of Navarra - IESE Business School

Downloads 1,740

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New Thinking on ‘Shareholder Primacy’

UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 11-04

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Feb 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Lynn A. Stout

Cornell Law School - Jack G. Clarke Business Law Institute

Downloads 1,710

42.

Shareholder Litigation in Mergers and Acquisitions

18 Journal of Corporate Finance 1248 (2012), AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper, 6th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Northwestern Univ Law School 2011, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-23, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-37

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 09 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 05 May 2017

Accepted Paper Series

C. N. V. Krishnan, Ronald W. Masulis, Randall S. Thomas and Robert B. Thompson

Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, University of New South Wales - Australian School of Business, Vanderbilt University - Law School and Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 1,672

43.

Shareholder Activism on Sustainability Issues

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 07 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2016

Working Paper Series

Jyothika Grewal, George Serafeim and Aaron S. Yoon

Harvard University - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Business School

Downloads 1,670

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Are Fairness Opinions Fair? The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions

AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper, EFA 2006 Zurich Meetings, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 91, No. 2, 2009

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 30 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Darren J. Kisgen, Jun Qian and Weihong Song

Boston College - Carroll School of Management, Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University and University of Cincinnati - Department of Finance

Downloads 1,659

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Shareholder Voting and Corporate Governance Around the World

Review of Financial Studies, July 13, 2015, Volume 28, Issue 8

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 04 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Peter Iliev, Karl V. Lins, Darius P. Miller and Lukas Roth

Pennsylvania State University - Department of Finance, University of Utah - Department of Finance, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Edwin L. Cox School of Business and University of Alberta - Department of Finance and Statistical Analysis

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,618

46.

Operating Performance Improvements after Corporate Takeovers: Fact or Fallacy?

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 05 Jul 2009

Working Paper Series

Amir Amel-Zadeh

University of Oxford - Said Business School

Downloads 1,612

47.

Activism of Institutional Investors, Corporate Governance Alerts and Financial Performance

International Journal of Business, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2010

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Jan 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Jean-Michel Sahut, Jean-Sebastien Lantz and Sophie Montandrau

IPAG Business School, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications and IAE of Aix en Provence

Downloads 1,598

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Shareholder Activism as a Corrective Mechanism in Corporate Governance

Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2014, No. 5, 2014, Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 225

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 12 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Paul Rose and Bernard S. Sharfman

Ohio State University - Moritz College of Law and R Street Institute

Downloads 1,587

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How Have M&As Changed? Evidence from the Sixth Merger Wave

European Journal of Finance, Vol. 18, pp. 663-688, 2012

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2012

Accepted Paper Series

George Alexandridis, Christos P. Mavis and Nickolaos G. Travlos

ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Surrey - Surrey Business School and University of Surrey

Downloads 1,541

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Shareholder Votes and Proxy Advisors: Evidence from Say on Pay

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 11 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2013

Working Paper Series

Yonca Ertimur, Fabrizio Ferri and David Oesch

University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Accounting, Columbia Business School - Accounting, Business Law & Taxation and University of Zurich

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,511

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