This paper examines the relationship between ownership structure, analyst coverage, and forecast error for the entire population of non-financial companies listed on the Swiss Exchange for the period 2003-2013. The results show a negative association between concentrated ownership and analyst coverage for both family firms and firms held by a nonfamily blockholder. Furthermore, forecasts of ana...

Behavioral financial knowledge deals with the behavior of investors and other users in the capital market. According to the financial knowledge, it is no longer expected that only factors such as accounting information and macroeconomic variables will affect decision-making but also a variety of behavioral variables including manager’s optimism, information influence management, patience of maj...

BACKGROUND Rates of disclosure of child abuse by women survivors are low, and general practitioners seldom ask women about such history. This study explored the experiences of women survivors: child abuse disclosure, GP service use and thoughts on being asked about their abuse experiences. METHODS A cross-sectional study containing quantitative and qualitative questions was conducted with 108...

Shareholder proposals are a common form of shareholder activism. Voting for shareholder proposals, however, is nonbinding since management has the authority to reject the proposal even if it received majority support from shareholders. We analyze whether nonbinding voting is an effective mechanism for conveying shareholder expectations. We show that, unlike binding voting, nonbinding voting gen...

As it is known, the prevalence of mental disorders in penitentiary system high. Among disorders, there are psychoses different genesis, affective post-traumatic stress disorder, personality substance abuse, dual etc. The study within prison relationship between crime committed by an individual and a very interesting current problem. I think prisons deserves special attention. goal this was to e...

OBJECTIVE Violence imposed on wives by their inpatient psychiatric husbands has not been studied yet. The current study surveyed the rates and predictors of violence committed by inpatient psychiatric husbands towards their wives. METHODS A convenient sample of wives of 209 married male psychiatric inpatients completed a self-reported questionnaire. They were asked about physical, emotional, ...

We find that annual shareholder meetings conducted online can greatly increase the participation of shareholders, especially retail shareholders. This finding is more evident when the cost of physically attending such a meeting is higher and when the firm’s ownership is more dispersed. We further document significant positive stock returns when firms initiate online annual meetings. We also fin...