Debt-ridden corporate growth and increased vulnerability was one of the causes of the 1997 financial crisis in Korea. Introduction of outside director system has been the core part of the corporate reforms following the crisis. Our estimation using instruments obtained from a natural experiment...

Existing literature on the evaluation of the economic consequences of board reforms has some limitations including: their estimation results fail to show the causal effects of the regulatory reforms; they have limited policy implications for an economy where family businesses are dominant; and...

Existing literature on the evaluation of the economic consequences of board reforms has some limitations including: their estimation results fail to show the causal effects of the regulatory reforms; they have limited policy implications for an economy where family businesses are dominant; and...

There is growing evidence that economic crises are transmitted across economies and equity markets. This motivates two questions. First, can the direction and magnitude of a country's stock market reaction during an extreme case (quot;contagionquot;) be explained by economic fundamentals?...

The primary objective of this research is to investigate aspects of the length of time between a LBO and a subsequent IPO (reverse LBO). Short LBO times benefit from the relevance of pre-LBO information, and long LBO times benefit from less uncertainty about future performance. A sample of 251...

Comparable company analysis (CCA) has become the standard tool for measuring the beta of a non-traded firm or division. The average beta of the comparable companies is taken as the estimate for the non-traded company. We apply a framework for testing the usefulness of CCA in estimating beta to a...

This study provides evidence of common bivariate jumps (i.e., systematic cojumps) between the market index and style-sorted portfolios. Systematic cojumps are prevalent in book-to-market portfolios and hence, their risk cannot easily be diversified away by investing in growth or value stocks....