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Does the Plaintiff Matter? An Empirical Analysis of Lead Plaintiffs in Securities Class Actions
(Columbia Law Review, 2006)
The PSLRA's lead plaintiff provision was adopted in order to encourage large shareholders with claims in a securities fraud class action to step forward to become the class' representative. Congress' expectation was that ...
Lying and Getting Caught: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Securities Class Action Settlements on Targeted Firms
(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2010)
The ongoing Great Recession has triggered numerous proposals to improve the regulation of financial markets and, most importantly, the regulation of organizations such as credit rating agencies, underwriters, hedge funds, ...
Public and Private Enforcement of the Securities Laws: Have Things Changed Since Enron?
(Notre Dame Law Review, 2005)
In this paper, we examine how those corporations that have been the targets of SEC enforcement efforts compare in terms of their size and financial health vis-a-vis firms that are targeted only by the private securities ...
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 ...
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 ...
Do Differences in Pleading Standards Cause Forum Shopping in Securities Class Actions?: Doctrinal and Empirical Analyses
(Wisconsin Law Review, 2009)
Federal appellate courts have promulgated divergent legal standards for pleading fraud in securities fraud class actions after the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA). Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court issued ...
Letting Billions Slip Through Your Fingers: Empirical Evidence and Legal Implications of the Failure of Financial Institutions to Participate in Securities Class Action Settlements
(Stanford Law Review, 2005)
This article presents the results of an empirical investigation of the frequency with which financial institutions submit claims in settled securities class actions. We combine an empirical study of a large set of settlements ...