Shareholder litigation is important because it is costly and can influence firms reporting behavior. Prior research finds that attorneys incentives and specific firm characteristics drive shareholder litigation. In this study, I control for these known drivers in order to examine whether an...

This dissertation comprises two essays on earnings forecasting accuracy. Chapter 2 focuses on how management forecasting accuracy is affected by managers behavioral biases over time and Chapter 3 addresses how analyst portfolio design choices affect cross-sectional differences in analyst...

In this dissertation, I conduct experimental labor markets to investigate the effectiveness of an optimal agency contract in inducing employee effort and maximizing firm profit. I compare firm profit under the optimal agency contract to that under a theoretically sub-optimal contract that relies...