Female board representation, corporate innovation and firm performance

J Chen, WS Leung, KP Evans - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2018 - Elsevier
We show evidence that female board representation is associated with greater innovative
success, and thus enhances firm performance in innovation-intensive industries. Firms with …

Trade secrets law and corporate disclosure: Causal evidence on the proprietary cost hypothesis

Y Li, Y Lin, L Zhang - Journal of Accounting Research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study exploits the staggered adoption of the inevitable disclosure doctrine (IDD) by US
state courts as an exogenous shock that generates variations in the proprietary costs of …

Organization capital and mergers and acquisitions

K Li, B Qiu, R Shen - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2018 - cambridge.org
Using a sample of completed US acquisition deals over the period 1984–2014, we find that
acquirer organization capital as measured by capitalized selling, general, and administrative …

CEO confidence and unreported R&D

PS Koh, DM Reeb, W Zhao - Management Science, 2018 - pubsonline.informs.org
We investigate whether managerial traits influence corporate decisions to provide
mandatory financial disclosures. The results indicate that firms with confident chief executive …

Does knowledge protection benefit shareholders? Evidence from stock market reaction and firm investment in knowledge assets

B Qiu, T Wang - Journal of Financial and Quantitative analysis, 2018 - cambridge.org
This article studies whether knowledge protection affects shareholder value and firms'
investment in knowledge assets using the staggered adoptions and rejections of the …

The effect of trade secret legal protection on venture capital investments: Evidence from the inevitable disclosure doctrine

F Castellaneta, R Conti, FM Veloso… - Journal of Business …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study investigates how the inevitable disclosure doctrine, a form of trade secret legal
protection, affects venture capital (VC) investment. Using a data set of VC deals realized in …

[PDF][PDF] Human capital driven acquisition: Evidence from the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine

H Gao, Y Ma - 2016 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
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Human Capital Driven Acquisition: Evidence from the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine …

[PDF][PDF] Forcing Managers to Talk: CEO Confidence and R&D Opacity

PS Koh, DM Reeb, W Zhao - NBER, 2015 - davidreeb.net
We explore the effectiveness of forcing managers to provide financial information by
comparing R&D opacity in firms with confident and cautious CEOs. We find that firms with …

[引用][C] Managers' career concerns and asymmetric disclosure of bad versus good news

A Ali, N Li, W Zhang - SSRN eLibrary, 2015

Three studies on institutional environment and the private equity continuum: from early-stage venture capital investments to buyouts

CAC Kemeny - 2015 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation evaluates the effects of the institutional environment on investment and
performance in the private equity industry. It provides insights on how trade secret protection …