This post is part of a series introducing journals published by SSRN’s new Corporate Governance Network (CGN). CGN publishes and distributes electronic journals covering the full range of areas in corporate governance. It seeks to provide its readers with full exposure to new corporate governance research placed on SSRN irrespective of the author’s discipline. CGN’s director is Lucian Bebchuk, Director of the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School.
The Corporate Governance Network (CGN) of SSRN recently launched a new e-journal on Acquisitions, Mergers, Contests for Control, & Activism. This journal distributes abstracts of, and links to, selected recent working papers that deal with M&A transactions, proxy fights & corporate elections, going private and freezeout transactions, hedge fund activism, and similar topics.
The journal collects abstracts on these topics from all new submissions to the entire SSRN database irrespective of discipline. It brings together contributions from accounting, economics, finance, law, management, sociology and psychology. Thus, this e-journal attempts to provide its readers with full exposure to all new papers related to its subject matter placed on SSRN.
Since its inception, the journal has distributed twenty-two issues of five to six papers each. Papers distributed in the last several weeks include:
- Kenneth Ahern, Daniele Daminelli & Cesare Fracassi, Lost in Translation? The Effect of Cultural Values on Mergers Around the World;
- Malcolm Baker, Xin Pan & Jeffrey Wurgler, A Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions;
- Lucian Bebchuk & Ehud Kamar, Bundling and Entrenchment;
- John Coates, The Powerful and Pervasive Effects of Ownership on M&A;
- Paul Davies, Edmund-Philipp Schuster & Emilie van de Walle de Ghelcke, The Takeover Directive as a Protectionist Tool?;
- Joseph Grundfest, Measurement Issues in the Proxy Access Debate;
- Kose John & William Sodjahin, Corporate Asset Purchases, Sales and Governance.
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