Browsing by Subject "corporate governance"

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    • Dodd-Frank's Say on Pay: Will It Lead to a Greater Role for Shareholders in Corporate Governance? 
      Thomas, Randall S., 1955-; Palmiter, Alan R.; Cotter, James F. (Cornell Law Reviewhttp://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/cornell-law-review/, 2012)
      "Say on pay" gives shareholders an advisory vote on a company's pay practices for its top executives. Beginning in 2011, Dodd-Frank mandated such votes at public companies. The first year of "say on pay" under the new ...
    • Essays in Corporate Finance 
      Wang, Cong (2007-06-25)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation consists of three essays. The first chapter examines the valuation effect of information asymmetry and the role of financial intermediaries as information gathering and processing experts. In a sample of ...
    • Essays in Corporate Governance 
      Guo, Lixiong (2012-05-18)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation uses forced CEO turnover events to provide new evidence on three important questions in finance and economics. Chapter one studies the causal relation between board structure and effectiveness of internal ...
    • Fraud on the Market: An Action Without a Cause 
      Rose, Amanda M. (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2011)
      This is a response to William W. Bratton & Michael L. Wachter, The Political Economy of Fraud on the Market, 160 U. PA. L. REV. 69 (2011). Bratton and Wachter argue that fraud-on-the-market class actions (FOTM) should be ...
    • Shareholder Voting in an Age of Intermediary Capitalism 
      Edelman, Paul H.; Thomas, Randall S.; Thompson, Robert B. (Southern California Law Review, 2014)
      Shareholder voting is a key part of contemporary American corporate governance. As numerous contemporary battles between corporate management and shareholders illustrate, voting has never been more important. Yet, traditional ...
    • Too-Big-to-Fail Shareholders 
      Yadav, Yesha (Minnesota Law Review, 2018)
      To build resilience within the financial system, post-Crisis regulation relies heavily on banks to fund themselves more fully by issuing equity. This reserve of value should buttress failing banks by providing a mechanism ...
    • Will Tenure Voting Give Corporate Managers Lifetime Tenure? 
      Edelman, Paul H.; Thomas, Randall S.; Jiang, Wei (Texas Law Review, 2019)
      Dual-class voting systems have been widely employed in recent initial public offerings by large tech companies, but have been roundly condemned by institutional investors and the S&P 500. As an alternative, commentators ...