Nick Hassel in The Times commented earlier this month: “The stock market has been declared dead many times before. We heard this in 1979, in 2003, and are hearing it now in 2009. The consolation is that, on those two

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Hedge fund investor activism and takeovers
Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor, Harvard University

Hedge fund activism has limited scope to bring about far-reaching effects on corporate governance, this paper has found. The authors examined long-term stock returns around hedge fund …

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

Hedge fund investor activism and takeovers
Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor, Harvard University

Hedge fund activism has limited scope to bring about …

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

Reputational Sanctions in China’s Securities Market
Benjamin Liebman and Curtis Milhaupt, Columbia Law School

Public criticism of listed companies by the Shanghai …

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

Do IFRS/UK-GAAP reconciliations convey new information?
Edward Lee and Martin Walker, University of Manchester – Division of Accounting & Finance; and Hans

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

The Special Interest Race to CEO Primacy and the End of Corporate Governance Law
Steven Ramirez, professor of law, Loyola University of …

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

Law and the Market: The Impact of Enforcement

John Coffee, Columbia Law School. Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 304.

The …

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

Superstar CEOs

Ulrike Malmendier, University of California – Berkeley; and Geoffrey Tate, UCLA.

The firms of US chief executives who win high-profile …

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