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Do Boards Pay Attention When Institutional Investor Activists 'Just Vote No'?
- Diane Del Guercio, L. Cole, Tracie Woidtke
- Business
- 1 January 2008
We examine "just vote no" campaigns, a recent innovation in low-cost shareholder activist tools whereby activists encourage their fellow shareholders to withhold votes toward a director's election to…
Commitment or Entrenchment?: Controlling Shareholders and Board Composition
- Yin‐Hua Yeh, Tracie Woidtke
- Business
- 1 July 2005
Agents watching agents?: evidence from pension fund ownership and firm value
- Tracie Woidtke
- Economics, Business
- 2002
Family Control and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Taiwan
- Yin‐Hua Yeh, Tsun-siou Lee, Tracie Woidtke
- Business
- 2001
A recent stream of literature shows that family control is central in most countries of the world, but little research exists regarding family control and corporate governance. This paper analyses…
Does Investor Identity Matter in Equity Issues? Evidence from Private Placements
- Srinivasan Krishnamurthy, P. Spindt, Venkat Subramaniam, Tracie Woidtke
- Business
- 1 April 2005
The Role of Negotiations in Corporate Governance: Evidence from Withdrawn Shareholder-Initiated Proposals
- N. Chidambaran, Tracie Woidtke
- Business
- 1 December 1999
We examine shareholder proposals that are withdrawn by the sponsor during the period 1989 to 1995 to identify factors that affect the relative ability of shareholders and managers to negotiate. We…
Appointments of Academic Directors
- Joshua T. White, Tracie Woidtke, Harold A. Black, Robert L. Schweitzer
- Business
- 24 November 2013
We examine the outside director selection process using unique data on appointments of academic directors. Overall, we find that academic directors tend to be appointed by small- and mid-cap firms…
The Role of the Audit Committee and the Informativeness of Accounting Earnings in East Asia
- Tracie Woidtke, Yin‐Hua Yeh
- Economics, Business
- 10 October 2012
Can Strong Corporate Governance Selectively Mitigate the Negative Influence of 'Special Interest' Shareholder Activists? Evidence from the Labor Market for Directors
- Diane Del Guercio, Tracie Woidtke
- Business
- 21 June 2018
The motivation behind labor union and public pension fund activism is widely debated. We posit that activism motivated by private benefits primarily arises when there is a firm-specific conflict of…
Investor Protection and Real Investment by U.S. Multinationals
- Eric K. Kelley, Tracie Woidtke
- Economics
- 1 September 2006
In spite of the growing research concerning investor protection, the relation between investor protection and real investment by foreign multinationals is largely unexplored. Recognizing this…
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