We both live in two worlds: The workaday reality of investing, and the sometimes-rarified air of academia. Often those two realities are disjointed, existing separate and apart as if they were different dimensions in a science fiction novel. But every once in a while we’re struck by a little-noticed academic paper that offers insights both timely and important to Compliance Week readers. Recently we discovered three such pieces of research.
The first draft paper examines what vote totals mean in uncontested director elections. Seems like it would be ho-hum, if not outright boring. Uncontested elections generally do not draw ...