Regulatory races: the effects of jurisdictional competition on regulatory standards

BG Carruthers, NR Lamoreaux - Journal of Economic Literature, 2016 - aeaweb.org
This article surveys the literature on regulatory arbitrage in four settings: labor regulation,
environmental protection, corporate governance, and banking and finance. For a regulatory …

Negligence and AI's human users

AD Selbst - BUL Rev., 2020 - HeinOnline
Negligence law is often asked to adapt to new technologies. So it is with artificial intelligence
(" Al"'). Though AI often conjures images of autonomous robots, especially autonomous …

Measurement error, fixed effects, and false positives in accounting research

J Jennings, JM Kim, J Lee, D Taylor - Review of Accounting Studies, 2024 - Springer
We show theoretically and empirically that measurement error can bias in favor of falsely
rejecting a true null hypothesis (ie, a “false positive”) and that regression models with high …

The corporate governance gap

K Kastiel, Y Nili - Yale LJ, 2021 - HeinOnline
A reliable system of corporate governance is considered an important requirement for the
long-term success of public companies and for the good of society at large. After decades of …

Litigation risk and voluntary disclosure: Evidence from legal changes

JF Houston, C Lin, S Liu, L Wei - The Accounting Review, 2019 - publications.aaahq.org
This paper documents that changes in litigation risk affect corporate voluntary disclosure
practices. We make causal inferences by exploiting three legal events that generate …

Cleaning corporate governance

J Frankenreiter, C Hwang, Y Nili, E Talley - U. Pa. L. Rev., 2021 - HeinOnline
UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW Page 1 UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA LAW
REVIEW Founded 1852 Formerly AMERICAN LAW REGISTER © 2021 University of …

A great game: The dynamics of state competition and litigation

MD Cain, SD Solomon - Iowa L. Rev., 2014 - HeinOnline
We theorize a multi-dimensional picture of jurisdictional competition for corporate litigation.
We test this theory by examining merger litigation in a hand-collected sample of ii 17 …

Shareholder protection and the cost of capital

JF Houston, C Lin, W Xie - The Journal of Law and …, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Do shareholder protection laws affect the corporate cost of capital? To identify the causal
impact of shareholder protection laws on firms' implied cost of capital, we exploit the …

Blood in the water: The value of antitakeover provisions during market shocks

S Guernsey, SM Sepe, M Serfling - Journal of Financial Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
During market-wide shocks that cause large drops in stock prices, firms with more state-
endorsed antitakeover provisions (ATPs) experience smaller declines in value. Two …

Corporate inversions and the unbundling of regulatory competition

EL Talley - Va. L. Rev., 2015 - HeinOnline
SEVERAL prominent public corporations have recently embraced a noteworthy (and
newsworthy) type of transaction known as a" tax inversion." In a typical inversion, a US …