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Working papers written or revised during 2006


Ownership, competition, and financial disclosure

Jacqueline L. Birt, Chris M. Bilson, Tom Smith, and Robert E. Whaley

 

A screen for fraudulent return smoothing in the hedge fund industry 

Nicolas P.B. Bollen and Veronika Krepely

 

The determinants of corporate board size and composition: An empirical analysis

Audra L. Boone, Laura Casares Field, Jonathan M. Karpoff, and Charu G. Raheja

 

Reluctant privatization
Bernardo Bortolotti and
Mara Faccio
 

Auditor specialization: The influence of investment opportunities

Steven F. Cahan, Jayne M. Godfrey, Jane Hamilton, and Debra C. Jeter

 

A classification of firms based on earnings attributes
Paul K. Chaney, Bruce Cooil, and Debra C. Jeter

 

Prevention, crime control or cash? Public preferences towards criminal justice spending priorities
Mark A. Cohen, Roland T. Rust, and Sara Steen

 

Information disclosure as environmental regulation: A theoretical analysis
Mark A. Cohen and V. Santhakumar

 

Security offerings
B. Espen Eckbo,
Ronald W. Masulis, and Oyvind Norli

 

Political connections and corporate bailouts
Mara Faccio, Ronald W. Masulis, and John J. McConnell

 

The characteristics of politically connected firms
Mara Faccio
 

Corporate response to distress: Evidence from the Asian financial crisis
Mara Faccio and Rajdeep Sengupta
 

Sudden deaths: Taking stock of political connections

Mara Faccio and David C. Parsley
 

Slow passthrough around the world: A new import for developing countries?

Jeffrey A. Frankel, David C. Parsley, and Shang-Jin Wei

 

Shareholder initiated class action lawsuits: Shareholder wealth effects and industry spillovers

Amar Gande and Craig M. Lewis

 

Are banks still special when there is a secondary market for Loans?
Amar Gande and Anthony Saunders
 

Venture capital investments by IPO underwriters: Certification, alignment of interest or moral hazard?
Xi Li and
Ronald W. Masulis

 

Do venture investments by financial institutions affect the IPO underwriting process?
Xi Li and
Ronald W. Masulis

 

Measuring financial integration via idiosyncratic risk: What effects are we really picking up?

David C. Parsley and Christian Schlag
 

Limiting currency volatility to stimulate goods market integration: A price-based approach

IMF Working Paper No. 01/197
David C. Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei
 

Understanding real exchange rate movements when trade is in middle products

David C. Parsley and Helen Popper

 

The persistent presidential dummy

John G. Powell, Jing Shi, Tom Smith, and Robert E. Whaley

 

Political regimes, business cycles, seasonalities, and returns

John G. Powell, Jing Shi, Tom Smith, and Robert E. Whaley

 

Regulation fair disclosure and the cost of adverse selection

Baljit K. Sidhu, Tom Smith, and Robert E. Whaley

 

 

 

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