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Murder on the City Express – Who is Killing the London Stock Exchange’s Equity Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

As private corporations have found it easier in recent years to raise capital from the private markets, the number of public firms listed on U.S. Why tap public investors for finance, and become exposed to burdensome regulation and the vicissitudes of the public markets, when growth can be sustained with private capital?

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The Market for Corporate Criminals

Harvard Corporate Governance

As a result, this problem could represent social cost in that one of corporate law’s key mechanisms for addressing business deficiencies—the market for corporate control—might fail when the deficiency in question is a culture of lawbreaking.

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Board Reforms, Stock Liquidity, and Stock Market Development

Harvard Corporate Governance

To develop financial markets, improve market liquidity and attract international capital, governments around the world are encouraged to improve their countries’ corporate governance systems and adopt internationally accepted best practices in corporate governance (e.g., OECD, 2011). OECD, 2011). Qiu and Slezak, 2019).

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Do Equity Markets Care About Income Inequality? Evidence from Pay Ratio Disclosure

Harvard Corporate Governance

financial markets and shareholders assess the dispersion in pay between a firm’s top executives and rank-and-file employees. We find that firms reporting a higher pay ratio experience a significantly lower market reactions than firms reporting a lower pay ratio. However, it is largely unknown how U.S. more…).

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Cryptocurrency Market Size Worth USD 1902.5 Million by 2028 | Report by Fortune Business Insights

Benzinga

18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global cryptocurrency market size was valued at USD 826.6 Fortune Business Insights™ has published these insights in its latest research report titled, "Cryptocurrency Market Forecast, 2023-2028.". Cryptocurrency Market Size in 2020. 2017 to 2019. Pune, India, Jan. million in 2020.

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Recruitment Software Market by 2025 Worth USD 3,095.8 Million, 7.4% CAGR

Benzinga

09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The advent of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in HR software solutions is expected to bode well for the global recruitment software market, finds Fortune Business Insights in their new study. According to the study, the global recruitment software market will rise at 7.4% Pune, India, Nov.

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TechCrunch Equity Podcast: 2017’s Top Tech Acquisitions and What’s in Store for 2018

Cooley M&A

Cooley partner and co-chair of the firm’s M&A practice, Jamie Leigh, discusses 2017’s market uncertainty while predicting a more competitive and bold M&A space in 2018. Listen to the podcast. Jamie Leigh.

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