Scandals

Insider Trading Laws and Stock Price Informativeness

Sexism, Culture, and Firm Value: Evidence from the Harvey Weinstein Scandal and the #MeToo Movement

During the Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo events, firms with a non-sexist corporate culture, proxied by having women among the five highest paid executives, earn excess returns of 1.6%. Returns for firms with...

Corporate Scandals and Household Stock Market Participation

We show that after the revelation of corporate fraud in a state, household stock market participation in that state decreases. Households decrease their holdings in fraudulent as well as non-fraudulent firms, even if they did not hold...

Financial Scandals and the Role of Private Enforcement: The Parmalat Case

Who Falls Prey to the Wolf of Wall Street? Investor Participation in Market Manipulation

Price distortions created by so-called “pump-and-dump” schemes are well known, but relatively little is known about the investors in these frauds. By examining 470 “pump-and-dump” schemes using a proprietary set of trading...

After Halliburton: Event Studies and Their Role in Federal Securities Fraud Litigation

Event studies have become increasingly important in securities fraud litigation after the Supreme Court?s decision in Halliburton II. Litigants have used event study methodology, which empirically analyzes the relationship...

Theft and Taxes

Legal Personhood and Liability for Flawed Corporate Cultures

A number of recent corporate law scandals (including the Wells Fargo fraudulent accounts scandal, the Volkswagen emissions scandal, sexual harassment claims at Fox News and CBS, and various banking scandals currently under...

The Corporate Value of (Corrupt) Lobbying

Using an event study, we examine whether the stock market considers corporate lobbying to be a value-enhancing investment. On January 3, 2006, lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to bribing politicians, which generated intense...

Governance of Financial Services Outsourcing: Managing Misconduct and Third-Party Risks

With financial institutions increasingly outsourcing their activities, they face a record number of fraud and misconduct cases arising from third-party services. We survey financial institutions to better understand which...

Corporate Fraud, Governance and Auditing

Corruption-related disclosure in the banking industry: Evidence from GIPSI countries

This paper empirically investigates corruption-related disclosure in the banking industry, aiming to identify the most relevant theories which explain why financial institutions disclose corruption-related information to the...