Purpose–The purpose of this paper was to determine to what extent Hong Kong's
experience proves (or disproves) theories from corporate governance in the areas of family …

Abstract In 2010, the United Kingdom issued the world's first stewardship code. Since then,
stewardship codes have been issued in many of the world's leading economies and now …

For over two decades, Japan has ostensibly had all of the essential elements that leading
academics and sophisticated investors have assumed to be sufficient for a country to …

Insurance can lead to loss or claim creation not only by insureds but also by uninsured third
parties. These externalities—which we call third-party moral hazard—arise because …

The advent of the" shareholder rights' plan", more popularly known as the" poison pill"',
fundamentally altered the trajectory of American corporate governance. Intended to defend …

Shareholder lawsuits comprise two categories: direct suits and derivative actions. While
singling out derivative actions as the quintessential minority shareholder protection …

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Described by the US Attorney General as “kleptocracy at its worst,” 1MDB, a Malaysian state-
owned company, was a vehicle for theft of billions by the former prime minister for nine …

One of the central problems of shareholder stewardship around the world is rendering
institutional investors good monitors of their investee companies and improving their …

In the wake of the Asian financial crisis, the World Bank asserted that poor corporate
governance in the affected countries was among the primary causes of the financial crisis. 1 …