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meetings of the committee. Does voting status change behavior? We find that the data go against the hypothesis that without the … voting right, presidents use their public speeches and their meeting interventions to compensate for the loss of formal … influence; rather, they support the hypothesis that the voting right makes presidents more involved. We also find that speeches …
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meetings of the committee. Does voting status change behavior? We find that the data go against the hypothesis that without the … voting right, presidents use their public speeches and their meeting interventions to compensate for the loss of formal … influence; rather, they support the hypothesis that the voting right makes presidents more involved. We also find that speeches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012547590
meetings of the committee. Does voting status change behavior? We find that the data go against the hypothesis that without the … voting right, presidents use their public speeches and their meeting interventions to compensate for the loss of formal … influence; rather, they support the hypothesis that the voting right makes presidents more involved. We also find that speeches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222536
meetings of the committee. Does voting status change behavior? We find that the data go against the hypothesis that without the … voting right, presidents use their public speeches and their meeting interventions to compensate for the loss of formal … influence; rather, they support the hypothesis that the voting right makes presidents more involved. We also find that speeches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222708
. We test two hypotheses about the dependence of presidents' behavior on voting status. (i) Loss compensation: presidents …
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We examine the effects of corporate lawsuits in China and find that litigation announcements depress the stock prices of both defendant and plaintiff firms. Financially distressed defendants suffer lower stock returns. We find that politically connected defendants are favored in the judicial...
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Existing research shows that members of Congress made informed trades prior to the passage of the STOCK Act of 2012. There is also evidence in the literature to suggest that the STOCK Act was able to deter politicians from trading based on non-public information. However, the question of whether...
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The emergence of high frequency trading has resulted in `bursts' of orders arriving at an exchange (nearly) simultaneously, yet most electronic financial exchanges implement the continuous limit order book which requires processing of orders serially. Contrary to an assumption that appears...
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This paper studies the information content and consequences of third-party voting advice issued during proxy contests …. We find that voting advice is a good predictor of contest outcomes and that vote recommendations appear to certify the …
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