Corporations: Statutes Providing for Both Cumulative Voting and Classified Boards

Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information∗ Arindrajit Dube

We estimate the impact of coups and top-secret coup authorizations on asset prices of partially nationalized multinational companies that stood to benefit from U.S.-backed coups. Stock returns of highly exposed firms reacted to coup authorizations classified as top-secret. The average cumulative abnormal return to a coup authorization was 9% over 4 days for a fully nationalized company, rising ...

Judging Close Corporations in the Age of Statutes

Cumulative Voting and the Voting Rights Act

Following are excerpts from an amicus curiae prepared by Edward Still and Pamela Karlan for The Center for Voting and Democracy in Cane v. Worcester County, a voting rights case concerning county commission elections in Maryland described in Deborah Jeon's article. It is important to stress that the Center's position is that cumulative voting's advantages are even more valid for choice voting (...

Fuzzy Neighbor Voting for Automatic Image Annotation

With quick development of digital images and the availability of imaging tools, massive amounts of images are created. Therefore, efficient management and suitable retrieval, especially by computers, is one of themost challenging fields in image processing. Automatic image annotation (AIA) or refers to attaching words, keywords or comments to an image or to a selected part of it. In this paper,...

A Weak Voting Database Replication Protocol Providing Different Isolation Levels

Database replication protocols have been usually designed in order to support a single isolation level. This paper proposes a middleware replication protocol able to manage three different isolation levels over multi-version DBMSs that provides SI level: GSI, SI, and serializable. This ensures a better support for applications that demand different isolation levels for their transactions. Addit...