Shareholder Voting and Corporate Governance

David Yermack ()
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David Yermack: Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, NY 10012-1126

Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2010, vol. 2, issue 1, 103-125

Abstract: This article reviews recent research into corporate voting and elections. Regulatory reforms have given shareholders more voting power in the election of directors and in executive compensation issues. Shareholders use voting as a channel of communication with boards of directors, and protest voting can lead to significant changes in corporate governance and strategy. Some investors have embraced innovative empty voting strategies for decoupling voting rights from cash flow rights, enabling them to mount aggressive programs of shareholder activism. Market-based methods have been used by researchers to establish the value of voting rights and show how this value can vary in different settings.

Keywords: empty voting; say on pay; shareholder activism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G23 G34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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