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Measuring Securities Market Efficiency in the Regulatory Setting
(Law and Contemporary Problems, 2000)
In the "Aircraft Carrier," the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed changes in federal securities disclosure requirements in an attempt to enhance and facilitate the process of issuing new securities. Under ...
The Determinants of Shareholder Voting on Stock Option Plans
(Wake Forest Law Review, 2000)
Over the past decade, executive compensation has become a controversial topic. Increasingly, corporate boards of directors are confronted by angry shareholder groups over the size and composition of executive pay packages. ...
Should Directors Reduce Executive Pay?
(Hastings Law Journal, 2003)
This paper examines internal pay disparities in American public corporations and argues that wide gaps between the top and bottom of the pay scale can, in certain circumstances, directly and adversely affect firm value, ...
Leaving Money on the Table: Do Institutional Investors Fail to File Claims in Securities Class Actions?
(Washington University Law Quarterly, 2002)
In this paper, we examine the role of institutional investors in securities fraud class actions. We begin by surveying the first five years of experience with the Lead Plaintiff provision of the Private Securities Litigation ...
Corporate Voting and the Takeover Debate
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2005)
For many years academics have debated whether it is better to permit hostile acquirers to use tender offers to gain control over unwilling target companies, or to force them to use corporate elections of boards of directors ...
Mapping the American Shareholder Litigation Experience
(European Company and Financial Law Review, 2009)
In this paper, we provide an overview of the most significant empirical research that has been conducted in recent years on the public and private enforcement of the federal securities laws. The existing studies of the ...
Common Challenges Facing Shareholder Suits in Europe and the United States
(European Company and Financial Law Review, 2009)
Episodic and even sometimes systematic misbehavior by businessmen and
corporate entities is ubiquitous. While Enron and WorldCom were the battle
cries for corporate reform in the U.S. so it was with Ahold and Parmalat ...
SEC Enforcement Heuristics: An Empirical Inquiry
(Duke Law Journal, 2003)
This Article examines the overlap between SEC securities enforcement actions and private securities fraud class actions. We begin with an overview of data concerning all SEC enforcement actions from 1997 to 2002. We find ...
Whither the Race? A Comment on the Effects of the Delawarization of Corporate Reorganizations
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2001)
Recent empirical work has demonstrated that large, publicly held firms tend to file for bankruptcy in Delaware. In our previous work, we have documented this trend, and argued that it may be efficient for prepackaged ...
There are Plaintiffs and . . . There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
In this paper, we examine the impact of the PSLRA and more particularly the impact the type of lead plaintiff on the size of settlements in securities fraud class actions. We thus provide insight into whether the type of ...