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Randall Morck
Researcher at University of Alberta
Publications - 317
Citations - 38563
Randall Morck is an academic researcher from University of Alberta. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate governance & Shareholder. The author has an hindex of 74, co-authored 314 publications receiving 36669 citations. Previous affiliations of Randall Morck include National Bureau of Economic Research & Hitotsubashi University.
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Management Ownership and Market Valuation: An Empirical Analysis
TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between management ownership and market valuation of the firm, as measured by Tobin's Q. In a 1980 cross-section of 371 Fortune 500 firms, they found evidence of a significant nonmonotonic relationship.
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The information content of stock markets: why do emerging markets have synchronous stock price movements?
TL;DR: This paper found that stock prices move together more in poor economies than in rich economies, and this "nding is not due to market size and is only partially explained by higher fundamentals".
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Do Managerial Objectives Drive Bad Acquisitions
TL;DR: This article found that the returns to bidding shareholders are lower when their firm diversifies, when it buys a rapidly growing target, and when the performance of its managers has been poor before the acquisition.
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Corporate Governance, Economic Entrenchment, and Growth
TL;DR: The economic entrenchment of large corporations is studied in this article, where the authors posit a relationship between the distribution of corporate control and institutional development that generates and preserves economic entropy.
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Do Managerial Objectives Drive Bad Acquisitions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present evidence that some types of bidders systematically overpay in acquisitions, thereby reducing the wealth of their shareholders as opposed to just revealing bad news about their firm.