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Mayhew, Stewart; Mihov, Vassil - EconWPA - 2000

Previous research has documented that the introduction of options seems to affect the volatility, liquidity, price and other characteristics of the underlying stock. Existing research, however, has not adequately accounted for the fact that option listing is endogenous, a result of decisions...

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A Simple Approach to Combining Internal and External Operational Loss Data

Okunev, Pavel - EconWPA - 2005

We propose a simple approach to combining internal and external loss data in the case when internal and external data come from the same distribution. We assume that the internal data is uncensored but the external data includes only losses above a known threshold. This approach is an...

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Little Firms and Big Patents: The Incentives To Disclose Competencies

Gick, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2004

This paper offers a theoretical treatment of information disclosure through patenting. We consider a signaling model in …

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False Modesty

Harbaugh, Rick; To, Dr. Theodore - EconWPA - 2005

Is it always wise to disclose good news? When both the sender and the receiver have private information about the sender's quality, we find that the worst sender type with good news has the most incentive to disclose it, so reporting good news can paradoxically make the sender look bad. If the...

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Corporate governance in Greece: developments and policy implications

Spanos, Loukas - EconWPA - 2005

The upgrading of the Greek capital market and the effort to join other mature capital markets has posed corporate governance reform as a first priority. In addition, the 2004 Olympic Games put the Greek market in the international spotlight and will likely invite interest from foreign investors....

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Booms, Busts, and Fraud

Povel, Paul; Singh, Rajdeep; Winton, Andrew - EconWPA - 2003

We examine firm managers' incentives to commit fraud in a model where firms seek funding from investors and investors … can monitor firms at a cost in order to get more precise information about firm prospects. We show that fraud incentives … funded without committing fraud, whereas in bad times investors are more vigilant and it is harder to commit fraud …

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Optimal Audit Policy and Heterogenous Agents

Ratto, Marisa; Vergé, Thibaud - EconWPA - 2003

Frauds can be explained not only in terms of individual willingness to cheat, but may also be driven by opportunities to behave dishonestly. The audit policy should therefore be different for different categories of agents. This paper focuses on the optimal audit policy when there are two...

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