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Shareholder litigation and short selling ahead of private equity placements
Bayar, Onur; Liu, Yini; Mao, Juan - In: The financial review : the official publication of the … 58 (2023) 4, pp. 833-858
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Does Being In-Person Matter? Evidence from Venture Capital Syndication
Pham, Peter Kien; Seysan, Rastin; Zein, Jason - 2023
Using the VC industry as a laboratory, we investigate whether incidental in-person interactions between people working in close proximity facilitate their future collaboration on projects of significant economic value. Our analysis exploits urban topological features surrounding VC fund offices...
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Two Trees with Heterogeneous Beliefs : Spillover Effect of Disagreement
Han, Bing - 2017
In a model where investors disagree about the fundamentals of two stocks, the state price density depends on investor disagreements for both stocks, especially the larger stock. This implies that disagreement among investors in a large firm has a spillover effect on the pricing of other stocks...
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On statistical methods for labor market evaluation under interference between units
Karlsson, Maria; Lundin, Mathias - 2016
Evaluation studies aim to provide answers to important questions like: How does this program or policy intervention affect the outcome variables of interest? In order to answer such questions, using the traditional statistical evaluation (or causal inference) methods, some conditions must be...
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Brothers in arms : spillovers from a draft lottery
Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Lyk-Jensen, Stéphanie … - 2017
Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark's largest random assignment - of young men to 8 months of military service - where service status of...
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Sibling spillover in rural China : a story of sisters and daughters
Bansak, Cynthia; Jiang, Xuan; Yang, Guanyi - 2020
We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an increase in the Chinese and Math test scores of elder siblings when their younger sibling starts school. We use the Chinese Law of Compulsory Education as an exogenous variation in the...
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Financial background of controlling shareholder and corporate financialization
Shi, Xiangyan; Danlu, Bu; Wen, Caihong; Lan, Zong - In: China journal of accounting studies 9 (2021) 3, pp. 383-407
This paper studies the effect of the controlling shareholder’s financial background on the corporate financialization …. We find that controlling shareholder’s financial background has a significant positive impact on corporate … real investment environment. Firms with financial controlling shareholders will increase long-term value reserving …
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Large shareholders' stock selling and corporate performance : evidence from China
Zhang, Yun; Liu, Yun; Tang, Yicheng; Gao, Qun - In: Pacific-Basin finance journal 86 (2024), pp. 1-21
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Incentive Effects of Class Actions and Punitive Damages Under Alternative Procedural Regimes
Cenini, Marta - 2010
In an economic perspective, punitive damages and class actions can be viewed as sharing a common economic function – creating optimal deterrence. Building on Parisi and Cenini (2010), we study the effect of alternative procedural regimes on the effectiveness of punitive damages and class...
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Corporate governance and shareholder litigation
Kalchev, Georgi - 2009
The probability for shareholder litigation is studied and how corporate governance characteristics and other factors explain it. Shareholder litigation results from failure of corporate governance. Thus a better quality of corporate governance is hypothesized to decrease the litigation...
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