Founders, heirs, and corporate opacity in the United States

By Ronald C. Anderson, Augustine Duru, David M. Reeb. 2009

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Competition of the Informed: Does the Presence of Short Sellers Affect Insider Selling? (2015, methodology): “However, we perform a robustness check by restricting the sample to the set of family-owned firms (Anderson et al., 2009; Anderson et al., 2012).”
The Adolescence of Family Firm Research (2012, unknown): “…processes and outcomes related to executive succession such as the professionalization of management (e.g., Gedajlovic et al., 2004), the transition from founder to descendant management (e.g., Anderson et al., 2009), and the transition from private to public ownership (e.g., Burkart et al., 2003).”
The Global Financial Crisis, Family Control, and Dividend Policy: The Global Financial Crisis, Family Control, and Dividend Policy (2016, unknown): “…variation in the association between dividends and family ownership.1 Given the prevalence of family firms around the globe (Carney and Child, 2013; Anderson, Duru, and Reeb, 2009, 2012), examining the dividend policy of family firms in a cross-country setting can improve our understanding of the…”
Family Control of Firms and Industries (2010, background): “Indeed, Anderson et al. (2009) document that, in the U.S., family firms are significantly more opaque than non-family firms.”
The Value of Enterprise Risk Management (2011, unknown): “Our first specification (Q1) includes three variables that commonly appear as control variables in Q models—Size, Leverage, and ROA (e.g., Allen and Rai, 1996; Allayannis and Weston, 2001; Anderson, Duru, and Reeb, 2009).”
Does increased board independence reduce earnings management? Evidence from recent regulatory reforms (2015, unknown): “We follow Anderson et al. (2009) and construct the information score based on the following four variables: (1) turnover – average daily trading volume scaled by the total number”