Ownership, Managerial Control and the Governance of Companies Listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange

Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

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A Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimator and a Direct Test for Heteroskedasticity

1980 • 25,774 citations

Separation of Ownership and Control

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A Survey of Corporate Governance

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Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm

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Large Shareholders and Corporate Control

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The Structure of Corporate Ownership: Causes and Consequences

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Outside directors and CEO turnover

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Takeover Bids, The Free-Rider Problem, and the Theory of the Corporation

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Firm Performance and Mechanisms to Control Agency Problems between Managers and Shareholders

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The Effects of Board Composition and Direct Incentives on Firm Performance

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The Structure of Ownership and the Theory of the Firm

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An Incomplete Contracts Approach to Financial Contracting

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Corporate Governance and the Board of Directors: Performance Effects of Changes in Board Composition

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Stock prices and top management changes

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Directors: Myth and Reality

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Large Shareholders, Monitoring, and the Value of the Firm

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One share-one vote and the market for corporate control

1988 • 1,377 citations

Executive compensation, management turnover, and firm performance

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The role of majority shareholders in publicly held corporations

1988 • 1,271 citations

Private benefits from control of public corporations

1989 • 1,210 citations

Bankruptcy, boards, banks, and blockholders

1990 • 1,108 citations

Price Reactions to Dividend Initiations and Omissions: Overreaction or Drift?

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Appointments of outsiders to Japanese boards: Determinants and implications for managers

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Performance Changes Following Top Management Dismissals

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Financial performance surrounding CEO turnover

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Earnings information conveyed by dividend initiations and omissions

1988 • 869 citations

Blocks, Liquidity, and Corporate Control

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Outside directorships and corporate performance

1990 • 690 citations

Write-Offs As Accounting Procedures to Manage Perceptions

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Earnings management and nonroutine executive changes

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Corporate Takeovers: Causes and Consequences

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Negotiated Block Trades and Corporate Control

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A Survey of Management Views on Dividend Policy

1985 • 386 citations

INCOME SMOOTHING AND INCENTIVES: EMPIRICAL TESTS USING ACCOUNTING CHANGES

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Corporate leadership : boards, directors, and strategy

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Top Executives, Turnover, and Firm Performance in Germany

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The Changing of the Guard: Turnover and Structural Change in the Top-Management Positions

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Organization Form, Residual Claimants, and Corporate Control

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Dividend Behavior for the Aggregate Stock Market

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Asset Writedowns: Managerial Incentives and Security Returns

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Corporate Governance

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Corporate Financial Policy, Information, and Market Expectations: An Empirical Investigation of Dividends

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Dividend Policy: An Empirical Analysis

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Asset Writedowns: Managerial Incentives and Security Returns

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Large Shareholdings and Corporate Control: An Analysis of Stake Purchases by French Holding Companies

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CEO retention, firm performance and corporate governance

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Large Shareholdings and Corporate Control: An Analysis of Stake Purchases by French Holding Companies

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Regulation, taxes and the market for corporate control in Belgium

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Corporate boards and corporate governance

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Aspects of Corporate Governance in Belgium

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