Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance

A Survey of Corporate Governance

1997 • 15,789 citations

Corporate Ownership Around the World

1999 • 10,370 citations

Large Shareholders and Corporate Control

1986 • 8,353 citations

The Structure of Corporate Ownership: Causes and Consequences

1985 • 6,489 citations

Investor Sentiment and the Cross‐Section of Stock Returns

2006 • 5,263 citations

Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation

2002 • 4,109 citations

Corporate governance proposals and shareholder activism: the role of institutional investors

2000 • 1,669 citations

Ownership structure and voting on antitakeover amendments

1988 • 1,598 citations

Private benefits from control of public corporations

1989 • 1,210 citations

The value of corporate voting rights and control: A cross-country analysis

2003 • 1,150 citations

The motivation and impact of pension fund activism

1999 • 931 citations

Large Shareholder Activism, Risk Sharing, and Financial Market Equilibrium

1994 • 898 citations

Entrepreneurial Shareholder Activism: Hedge Funds and Other Private Investors

2009 • 827 citations

The Behavior of Stock Prices Around Institutional Trades

1995 • 791 citations

Were the Good Old Days That Good? Changes in Managerial Stock Ownership Since the Great Depression

1999 • 658 citations

Pension Fund Activism and Firm Performance

1996 • 646 citations

Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States

2009 • 635 citations

Ownership Structure, Speculation, and Shareholder Intervention

1998 • 570 citations

Negotiated Block Trades and Corporate Control

1991 • 440 citations

Block Investment and Partial Benefits of Corporate Control

1995 • 428 citations

Shareholder Passivity Reexamined

1990 • 418 citations

The market value of control in publicly-traded corporations

1983 • 379 citations

A requiem for the USA Is small shareholder monitoring effective?

1996 • 377 citations

The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Target Companies: A Survey of Empirical Findings

2001 • 369 citations

A Survey of Shareholder Activism: Motivation and Empirical Evidence

2005 • 351 citations

The Effect of a Large Shareholder on Corporate Value

1993 • 342 citations

Shareholder Activism and Corporate Governance in the United States

1997 • 322 citations

Momentum Trading by Institutions

2002 • 314 citations

Hail Britannia?: Institutional Investor Behavior under Limited Regulation

1994 • 307 citations

Shareholder Activism by Institutional Investors: Evidence from CalPERS

1996 • 291 citations

Investor Protection and Corporate Governance

2001 • 290 citations

Control as a motivation for underpricing: a comparison of dual and single-class IPOs

2003 • 282 citations

Private benefits from block ownership and discounts on closed-end funds

1993 • 281 citations

LONG‐TERM REWARDS FROM SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM: A STUDY OF THE “CalPERS EFFECT”

1994 • 280 citations

Do occupational pension funds monitor companies in which they hold large stakes?

2000 • 257 citations

Investor Activism and Financial Market Structure

2002 • 241 citations

Of What Value Are Shareholder Proposals Sponsored by Public Pension Funds?

2000 • 214 citations

Does Coordinated Institutional Activism Work? An Analysis of the Activities of the Council of Institutional Investors

1996 • 184 citations

Agency Conflicts in Public and Negotiated Transfers of Corporate Control

2000 • 166 citations

The Law and Large-Block Trades

1992 • 158 citations

Identifying Control Motives in Managerial Ownership: Evidence from Antitakeover Legislation

2004 • 158 citations

Corporate Governance Through the Proxy Contest: Evidence and Implications

1993 • 152 citations

Banks, Ownership Structure, and Firm Value in Japan

2000 • 146 citations

Fiduciary Duties for Activist Shareholders

2008 • 140 citations

Less Is More: Making Shareholder Activism A Valued Mechanism Of Corporate Governance

2000 • 138 citations

Does Coordinated Institutional Investor Activism Reverse the Fortunes of Underperforming Firms?

2003 • 109 citations

The Value of Voting Rights to Majority Shareholders: Evidence from Dual-Class Stock Unifications

2003 • 103 citations

Identifying and Attracting the "right" Investors: Evidence on the Behavior of Institutional Investors

2004 • 92 citations

US institutional investors look at corporate governance in the 1990s

1993 • 91 citations

The American keiretsu and universal banks: Investing, voting and sitting on nonfinancials’ corporate boards

2005 • 80 citations

One Proxy at a Time: Pursuing Social Change through Shareholder Proposals

2006 • 61 citations

Information, Ownership Structure, and Shareholder Voting: Evidence from Shareholder-Sponsored Corporate Governance Proposals

1993 • 59 citations

Evaluating Dual Class Common Stock: The Relevance of Substitutes

1987 • 54 citations

International Evidence on Institutional Trading Behavior and Price Impact

2004 • 47 citations

Relationship Investing: Large Shareholder Monitoring with Managerial Cooperation

1998 • 41 citations

Shareholder Proposals and Corporate Governance

1995 • 38 citations

Shareholder Wealth Effects of CalPERS' Activism

1998 • 38 citations

Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation

2007 • 33 citations

Shareholder Proposals Post-Enron: What's Changed, What's the Same?

2005 • 14 citations

The Effectiveness of Institutional Activism

2001 • 9 citations

Governance of public pension funds: lessons from corporate governance and international evidence

2003 • 7 citations

8 The Distribution of Power among Corporate Managers, Shareholders, and Directors

2003 • 5 citations

Good Corporate Governance Works: More Evidence from CalPERS

2005 • 1 citations