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A dedicated investor relations (IR) function facilitates direct and ongoing dialogue between management and shareholders. This paper examines whether this form of engagement mitigates activism that relies upon support from other shareholders. We find that IR engagement is associated with...
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The taxation of realized capital gains creates a lock-in effect, increasing an investor's expected holding period. We show that the unrealized capital gains of mutual funds are positively associated with the earnings quality of their portfolio firms. Consistent with tax-induced lock-in, the...
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A large body of literature demonstrates that acquisitions are on average value-destroying for the acquirer. We investigate whether the change in the acquirer's information uncertainty contributes to acquirer wealth losses. Information uncertainty affects the discount rate (the cost of capital),...
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When private firms are acquired, buyers commonly rely on seller financing and earnouts. Using a novel database of private acquisitions, I find that seller financing and earnouts become more common as information asymmetry increases between the acquirer and the target. Financial statement audits...
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Prior research establishes that boards of directors can encourage risk-averse managers to take risky actions by … providing stock options and severance pay. We demonstrate that the ability of these incentives to encourage risk-taking hinges … findings that stock option convexity encourages risk-taking, but find that this relation only holds when the level of …
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The focus of this study is to identify the critical risk factors that can be used to assess the impact of B2B e …-commerce on overall enterprise risk. The Khazanchi and Sutton (2001) framework for B2B e-commerce assurance is applied as the … organizing conceptual model for the study. The framework focuses on three primary risk components: (1) technical risks, (2 …
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