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Shareholder Protection, Stock Markets and Cross-Border Mergers

Frederick S. Ahiabor | Gregory A. James | Frank O. Kwabi | Mathias Siems

How do we measure shareholder protection? For more than ten years, the Centre of Business Research (CBR) at the University of Cambridge has developed datasets on shareholder, creditor and worker...

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Is There a Relationship Between Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development?

Simon Deakin | Prabirjit Sarkar | Mathias Siems

Does the quality of legal and other institutions make a difference to economic development and growth? In their very well-known studies of the relation between law and finance, Andrei Shleifer and...

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A Place of Their Own: Crowds in the New Market for Equity Crowdfunding

Seth Oranburg

For over eighty years, US security laws have focused on mandating disclosures to protect investors. The efficacy of this strategy has been hotly debated for decades. Equity crowdfunding as it was...

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Time to make the Board Neutrality Rule Mandatory in the EU

Jennifer Payne, Merton College

The EU Takeover Bids Directive 2004/25/EC has been in force since 2006. The introduction of an EU level takeover directive was controversial and the difficulty of getting agreement from all Member...

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