OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL IN ITALIAN LISTED COMPANIES

Anna Paola MICHELI; Carmelo INTRISANO; Anna Maria CALCE

doi:https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2021.1508

Makale detayları

OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL IN ITALIAN LISTED COMPANIES

Yazarlar:

Anna Paola MICHELI | Carmelo INTRISANO | Anna Maria CALCE

Yayıncı:

PressAcademia

Ana Başlıklar:

Yönetim | Genel yönetim

Dergi:

PressAcademia Procedia 2021 Vol.14 Issue 1, pp.133-134

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000774892

Sıklık:

Üç Yıllık

eISSN:

2459-0762

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2021.1508

Özet:

 

Purpose- Dual class shares and shareholder agreements are among the most commonly mechanisms that listed companies use for separating
voting rights from cash flow rights. The paper provides an analysis of the diffusion of these mechanisms in Italian listed companies.
Methodology- The analysis to separate voting rights and ownership rights was carried out on all companies listed in the Milan Stock Exchange
from 2009 to 2020. The investigation refers to the entire population of listed companies in the Italian market. Data on ownership structures
was gathered through the analysis of Consob archives and publications. The dual-class companies were identified considering among
companies listed on the MSE those with limited voting shares, and then reconstructing for each company, the percentage of voting rights
held by the majority shareholder and the percentage of non-voting shares on the total share capital. In order to estimate the extent to which
shareholder agreements are diffused between companies listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, agreements in force between 2009 and 2020
were analyzed, reconstructing the duration, number and kind of members, eventual variations in dates of commencement and dates of
expiry, renewals as well as the percentage of share capital subject to a shareholders agreement and shares held by the parties involved. For
the same period, the change in the ownership concentration of the Italian market is also analyzed using the Shapley-Shubik and Banzhaf
indices.
Findings- We find that dual class model in Italy record a sharp decrease in the last 11 years due to corporate transactions that changed the
shareholding structure. In most of these companies the first shareholder exercises first degree control maintaining an absolute majority of
votes. As regards the shareholder agreements, analysis exhibit the significant decline in the number of companies that recur to these
agreements especially in the last three years. The evolution of the Shapley-Shubik and Banzhaf indices show the reduction in ownership
concentration.
Conclusion- This paper has examined the intensity of two separation mechanisms between ownership and control for Italian companies in
the period of 2009-2020. Analysis revealed that the issue of shares with limited voting rights is conceived by the shareholder in order to
consolidate its position as controller, rather than to obtain control. The study shows a stability of the leverage on voting rights and a
progressive decrease in the leverage on control and in the leverage demonstrating that in recent years it has been possible to exercise control
in companies by binding smaller shares of shareholdings in the agreements.

Makale detayları

OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL IN ITALIAN LISTED COMPANIES

Yazarlar: Anna Paola MICHELI | Carmelo INTRISANO | Anna Maria CALCE

Yayıncı: PressAcademia

Ana Başlıklar: Yönetim | Genel yönetim

Dergi: PressAcademia Procedia 2021 Vol.14 Issue 1, pp.133-134

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2021

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000774892

Sıklık: Üç Yıllık

eISSN: 2459-0762

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2021.1508

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Anna Paola MICHELI | Carmelo INTRISANO | Anna Maria CALCE

Yayıncı:

PressAcademia

Ana Başlıklar:

Yönetim | Genel yönetim

Dergi:

PressAcademia Procedia 2021 Vol.14 Issue 1, pp.133-134

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000774892

Sıklık:

Üç Yıllık

eISSN:

2459-0762

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2021.1508