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And with the France family controlling its stock, it can pretty much decide whether or not to take the company private, or increase its stake in the company even more.
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As NYSE has been expanding abroad with the first trans-Atlantic exchange deal, Nasdaq recently failed in its bid to acquire controlling interest in the London Stock Exchange.
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Stock market mispricing induces the controlling shareholder to sell overpriced equity, subsequently diverting resources to his benefit.
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Delaware law subjects cash takeovers and buyouts by controlling shareholders to much tougher scrutiny than most stock-swap mergers.
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It is common practice for large companies in Japan to list their subsidiaries on the stock market, while maintaining a controlling stake thereafter.
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Chief executive and controlling shareholder of steelmaker Severstal, which has seen its stock plummet 84% since last February.
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The NAPF - which represents pension funds controlling about a fifth of the shares on the London Stock Exchange - has asked its members to abstain from voting on pay awards at a series of annual general meetings this year.
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Motivated by the growing literature studying the effects of stock market mispricing on firm behaviour (see for example Stein 1996, Shleifer and Vishny 2003, and Baker 2009), we develop a simple framework for thinking about how stock market mispricing can offset agency costs and induce controlling shareholders to raise outside equity.
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After controlling for a host of economic and demographic factors, including the variation in housing stock, the researchers found that city council opposition to growth was strongly associated with fewer foreclosures.
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