Dual class firms: Capitalization, ownership structure and recapitalization back into single class

By Ben Amoako-Adu, Brian F. Smith. 2001

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Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States (2010, unknown): “14 While this Name variable is new, the result that family ownership is predictive of dualclass status is shown in other samples by DeAngelo and DeAngelo (1985); Field (1999); and Amoako-Adu and Smith (2001).”
Governance of Family Firms (2015, unknown): “Amoako-Adu & Smith (2001) and Arugaslan (2007) report similar findings from Canada and the United States, respectively.”
The Value of Voting Rights to Majority Shareholders: Evidence from Dual Class Stock Unifications (2000, background): “Other studies that mention unifications [Amoako-Adu and Smith (2001), for example] focus on the reasons for unifications—disputes between superior and inferior vote shareholders that diminish investor interest in dual-class stocks.”
One Share, One Vote: The Empirical Evidence (2007, unknown): “Amoako-Adu and Smith (2001) analyze the determinants of dual-class IPOs of companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange for the period 1979–1998.”