Browsing Handelshøyskolen BI by Author "Østergaard, Charlotte"

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    • Liquidity and Shareholder Activism 

      Norli, Øyvind; Østergaard, Charlotte; Schindele, Ibolya (CCGR Working Paper;1/2014, Working paper, 2014)
      Blockholders' incentives to intervene in corporate governance are weakened by free-rider problems and high costs of activism. Theory suggests activists may recoup expenses through informed trading of target firms' stock ...

    • Liquidity and shareholder activism 

      Norli, Øyvind; Østergaard, Charlotte; Schindele, Ibolya (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Blockholders' incentives to intervene in corporate governance are weakened by free-rider problems and high costs of activism. Theory suggests activists may recoup expenses through informed trading of target rms' stock ...

    • Social capital and the viability of stakeholder-oriented firms: Evidence from savings banks 

      Østergaard, Charlotte; Schindele, Ibolya; Vale, Bent (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      We show that social capital improves the viability of stakeholder-oriented rms operating in competitive markets. Studying exits from the population of Norwegian savings banks after deregulations, we nd that banks located ...

    • Why Do Boards Exist? Governance in the Absence of Corporate Law 

      Burkart, Mike; Miglietta, Salvatore; Østergaard, Charlotte (CCGR Working Paper;1/2017, Working paper, 2017)
      We study how owners trade off the costs and benefits of establishing a board in a historical setting, where boards are optional and authority over corporate decisions can be freely allocated across the general meeting, the ...