• Strategic Shareholders and IPO Disclosure: Evidence from Corporate Venture Capital 

  Zheng, Yue (2017)

  This paper exploits the recent rise in corporate venture capitalists (CVC) to examine the effect of shareholders’ strategic incentives on firms’ IPO disclosure. CVCs’ investments are often driven by both financial and ...

• Non-Investor Stakeholders and Earnings Benchmarks 

  Wei, Sijing (2017)

  ABSTRACT A firm has numerous non-investor stakeholders, such as customers, employees, and potential business partners, who provide needed monetary and nonmonetary support to the firm. In Essay One, I provide ...

• Industry Linkages and Audit Firms' Industry Portfolio Choice: Evidence from Product Language 

  Wang, Wenfeng (2016)

  Audit firms are organized along industry lines and industry specialization is a prominent feature of the audit market. Yet, we know little about how audit firms make their industry portfolio decisions, i.e., how audit firms ...

• NONDISCLOSURE – A GOOD NEWS SIGNAL? 

  Lee, Kyungran (2016)

  I examine the implications of nondisclosure in a setting where there is a credible signal as to the proprietary nature of the undisclosed information. Specifically, I investigate the market and analysts' response to firms’ ...

• An Integrated Analysis of the Corporate General Counsel's Impact on Accounting Choices and Legal Risk 

  Ham, Charles (2015)

  Companies are increasingly relying on highly paid corporate general counsels (GCs) to help manage the risks of costly regulatory sanctions and shareholder lawsuits associated with their firms' accounting and overall business ...

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