public information. Overall, we find no evidence for a downward bias in unsolicited ratings …

This paper examines local bias in the context of venture capital (VC) investments. Based on a sample of US VC … record) and VCs with broader networks exhibit less local bias. Staging and specialization in technology industries increase … VCs' local bias. We also find that the VC exhibits stronger local bias when it acts as the lead VC and when it is …

look-ahead bias, we re-estimate expected idiosyncratic volatility using information only up to time t - 1. We find no …

-level records covering the whole universe of French firms. The quasi-random assignment of judges to cases reveals that judge bias … find that the uncertainty associated with the actual dispersion of judge bias is small and has a non-significant impact on …