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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …