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Choi, Stephen J.; Fisch, Jill E.; Pritchard, Adam C. - 2013

We study the role of attorneys as arbitrators in securities arbitration, using a dataset of 422 randomly selected … arbitrators and their 6724 arbitration awards from 1992 to 2006. We find that arbitrators who also represent brokerage firms or … relation between representing brokerage firms and arbitration awards remains significant even when we control for political …

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Confronting the Peppercorn Settlement in Merger Litigation : An Empirical Analysis and a Proposal for Reform

Fisch, Jill E. - 2015

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Power and Statistical Significance in Securities Fraud Litigation

Fisch, Jill E. - 2020

Event studies, a half-century-old approach to measuring the effect of events on stock prices, are now ubiquitous in securities fraud litigation. In determining whether the event study demonstrates a price effect, expert witnesses typically base their conclusion on whether the results are...

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Mootness Fees

Cain, Matthew D. - 2020

In response to a sharp increase in litigation challenging mergers, the Delaware Chancery Court issued the 2016 Trulia decision, which substantively reduced the attractiveness of Delaware as a forum for these suits. In this Article, we empirically assess the response of plaintiffs' attorneys to...

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The broken buck stops here: Embracing sponsor support in money market fund reform

Fisch, Jill E. - Center for Financial Studies - 2014

Since the 2008 financial crisis, in which the Reserve Primary Fund "broke the buck," money market funds (MMFs) have been the subject of ongoing policy debate. Many commentators view MMFs as a key contributor to the crisis because widespread redemption demands during the days following the Lehman...

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The broken buck stops here: Embracing sponsor support in money market fund reform

Fisch, Jill E. - 2014

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The broken buck stops here : embracing sponsor support in money market fund reform

Fisch, Jill E. - 2014

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Shareholder Proposals and the Debate over Sustainability Disclosure

Fisch, Jill E.; Robertson, Adriana - 2023

The SEC’s proposed climate disclosure rule has generated substantial controversy. Among the concerns raised by commentators is that the rule is unnecessary because investors can obtain sufficient climate-related disclosure through private ordering. We examine one mechanism for private ordering...

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Extending Dual Class Stock : A Proposal

Berger, David J.; Fisch, Jill E.; Davidoff Solomon, Steven - 2023

The increasing use of dual class voting structures in public companies, and the frequency with which such structures contain sunset provisions, raises the issue of when and how such sunset provisions should be modified, extending the company’s use of the dual class structure. Recent decisions...

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Dual Class Stock

Fisch, Jill E.; Davidoff Solomon, Steven - 2023

This chapter examines dual class common stock. Dual class stock has evolved from a vehicle used largely by insiders in family owned and media companies to retain control into a popular capital structure for founders and initial shareholders in technology start-ups. After briefly reviewing the...

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