Common Ownership
Firms with Owners in Common Are Freer about Publicly Disclosing Information
The accounting literature has long examined how public disclosures relate to firm competitiveness. If common ownership is in fact hurting competition, companies with owners...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 17–Feb. 24)
This week in political economy.
Is the US economy being strangled by a lack of competition? In the Harvard Business Review, David Wessel provides...
New Evidence and Legal Theories About Horizontal Shareholding
Harvard Law School professor Einer Elhauge on his new paper on horizontal shareholding, which provides new empirical evidence that even when horizontal shareholders individually...
The Anti-Competitive Effects of Common Ownership: Q&A with Martin Schmalz
Martin Schmalz, assistant professor of business administration and finance at the University of Michigan, speaks about the anti-competitive effects of common ownership, a situation in...
