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Mandated Disclosure, Stock Returns, and the 1964 Securities Acts Amendments
Greenstone, Michael; Oyer, Paul; Vissing-Jorgensen, Annette - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
The 1964 Securities Acts Amendments extended the mandatory disclosure requirements that had applied to listed firms since 1934 to large firms traded Over-the-Counter (OTC). We find several pieces of evidence indicating that investors valued these disclosure requirements, two of which are...
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Capital-Market Effects of Securities Regulation: Hysteresis, Implementation, and Enforcement
Leuz, Christian; Christensen, Hans B.; Hail, Luzi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper examines capital market effects of changes in securities regulation. We analyze two key directives in the European Union (EU) that tightened market abuse and transparency regulation and its enforcement. All EU member states were required to adopt these two directives, but did so at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804681
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Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?
Leuz, Christian; Laux, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The recent financial crisis has led to a major debate about fair-value accounting. Many critics have argued that fair …-value accounting, often also called mark-to-market accounting, has significantly contributed to the financial crisis or, at least …, exacerbated its severity. In this paper, we assess these arguments and examine the role of fair-value accounting in the financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634632
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CEO Centrality
Bebchuk, Lucian; Peyer, Urs C.; Cremers, Martijn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
(industry-adjusted) accounting profitability, (ii) lower stock returns accompanying acquisitions announced by the firm and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829072
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Shareholder Democracy in Canada
Morck, Randall - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The federal government stands poised to exercise its constitutional right to regulate financial markets, an area traditionally left to competing provincial securities commissions. The current state of securities regulation renders impotent US-style takeover defences, such as poison pills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727855
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Spare Tire? Stock Markets, Banking Crises, and Economic Recoveries
Levine, Ross; Lin, Chen; Xie, Wensi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Do stock markets act as a “spare tire” during banking crises, providing an alternative corporate financing channel and mitigating the economic severity of banking crises? Using firm-level data in 36 countries from 1990 through 2011, we find that the adverse consequences of banking crises on...
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Powerful Independent Directors
Morck, Randall; Fogel, Kathy; Ma, Liping - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Shareholder valuations are economically and statistically positively correlated with more powerful independent directors, their power gauged by social network power centrality measures. Sudden deaths of powerful independent directors significantly reduce shareholder value, consistent with...
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The dark side of outside directors: Do they quit when they are most needed?
Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger; Low, Angie; Stulz, René M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Outside directors have incentives to resign to protect their reputation or to avoid an increase in their workload when they anticipate that the firm on whose board they sit will perform poorly or disclose adverse news. We call these incentives the dark side of outside directors. We find strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631680
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The Growth of Executive Pay
Bebchuk, Lucian; Grinstein, Yaniv - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper examines both empirically and theoretically the growth of U.S. executive pay during the period 1993-2003. During this period, pay has grown much beyond the increase that could be explained by changes in firm size, performance and industry classification. Had the relationship of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011935
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Do U.S. Firms Have the Best Corporate Governance? A Cross-Country Examination of the Relation between Corporate Governance and Shareholder Wealth
Aggarwal, Reena; Erel, Isil; Stulz, Rene M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We compare the governance of foreign firms to the governance of similar U.S. firms. Using an index of firm governance attributes, we find that, on average, foreign firms have worse governance than matching U.S. firms. Roughly 8% of foreign firms have better governance than comparable U.S. firms....
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