Voting Control in German Corporations

• Main Authors: BOEHMER, Ekkehart, Becht, Marco
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2003
• Subjects: Voting-block statistics; Blockholders; Corporate control; Business; Corporate Finance; Strategic Management Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4653; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0144-8188(03)00011-5
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Corporate control in Germany has received considerable attention in the law and economics literature. However, the absence of disclosure provisions comparable to those of the Williams Act in the United States limited the informativeness of empirical studies. The recent transposition of the European...