EVENT STUDIES AND THE LAW: PART II - Empirical Studies of Corporate Law

By Sanjai Bhagat, R. Romano. 2002

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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5. Bernard S. Black
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• Exploring the Role Delaware Plays as a Domestic Tax Haven (2013, background): “Evidence supporting this argument includes higher market values and higher abnormal returns after re-incorporations (e.g., Dodd and Leftwich, 1980; Romano 1985; Bhagat and Romano, 2002; Daines, 2001; Subramanian, 2004).”
• Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries (2010, unknown): “While this assumption is satisfied in many applications where 39Most other event studies focus on a single antitakeover law; see Table 2 in Bhagat and Romano (2002).”
• Staggered Boards and Firm Value, Revisited (2013, unknown): “Event studies also support the entrenchment view of board-insulating arrangements, both relative to their adoption (or amendments) (for a survey see Bhagat and Romano, 2002a; 2002b) and related regulatory and case law changes (Karpoff and Malatesta, 1989; Cohen and Wang, 2013; Cremers and Ferrell,…”
• Does Corporate Governance Matter to Bondholders? (2005, background): “2Holmstrom and Kaplan (2001), Bhagat and Romano (2001), Comment and Schwert (1995), and Karpoff and Malatesta (1989) also report on antitakeover provisions. For a review on the takeover market, see Agrawal and Jaffe (2003) and for corporate governance see Shleifer and Vishny (1997). 3We focus on bon”
• The Effect of State Antitakeover Laws on the Firm's Bondholders (2010, unknown): “1 See for example Black (1998), Bebchuk (2006) and the Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002.”
• The Cost to Firms of Cooking the Books (2008, unknown): “Our rationale for this measure follows Bhagat and Romano (2002a), (2002b).”
• Market Reaction to Events Surrounding the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (2005, unknown): “5 Bhagat and Romano review the application of event studies to corporate law and governance issues (S. Bhagat and R. Romano, Event Studies and the Law: Part II: Empirical Studies of Corporate Law, 4 Am. Law and Econ. Rev. (2002)).”
• Shock-Based Causal Inference in Corporate Finance and Accounting Research (2015, methodology): “Black et al. (2006) use a combined IV/RD design. And four papers use DiD and an event study separately. 37 The earliest DiD paper in corporate finance we know of is French and Roll’s (1986) study of the effect of stock exchanges being open on share price volatility.”