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Voting control in German corporations

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  • Ekkehart Boehmer

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  • Marco Becht & Ekkehart Boehmer, 2003. "Voting control in German corporations," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/13312, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
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