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The Hidden Costs Of Private Benefits Of Control: Value Shift And Efficiency, Hyun-Chul Lee
The Hidden Costs Of Private Benefits Of Control: Value Shift And Efficiency, Hyun-Chul Lee
Hyun-Chul Lee
This paper relates the two regimes governing control transfer to the adverse impacts that private benefits of control have on IPOs. Merely the value-transfer nature of private benefits alone may stymie efficient IPOs because of the wedge between the discount for private benefits in pricing and what the initial owner will eventually capture. Irrelevance of the value-shift nature to the initial owner’s payoffs serves efficient IPOs. This paper shows separate mechanisms by which the two rules generate such wedge. The Market Rule allows increase in private benefits via control transfer, causing discount with maximum ceiling of private benefits. To offset …
Corporations As Cities: Targeting The Nodes In Overlapping Networks,, Claire Moore Dickerson
Corporations As Cities: Targeting The Nodes In Overlapping Networks,, Claire Moore Dickerson
Claire Moore Dickerson
Conceptualizing corporations as combinations of interrelated networks helps to identify the persons within the institution who are most able to influence change of policy.
Race, Corporate Law, And Shareholder Value, Thomas W. Joo
Race, Corporate Law, And Shareholder Value, Thomas W. Joo
Thomas W Joo
Racial justice is becoming a taboo subject, which often has to be explained and justified in nominally “race-neutral” terms. The rhetorical strategy of linking diversity to the bottom line is potentially powerful in the current political and cultural climate. But the strategy also has limitations and costs. It is not clear that diversity and improved corporate performance always go hand in hand. Furthermore, as a matter of corporate law doctrine, even strong evidence of a correlation between the two would not necessarily constitute a basis to compel corporations to take any action to further racial justice. Finally, there is a …