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28 Nov 2018

Preliminary Evidence Suggests That Female Entrepreneurs Raise Less Than Their Male Counterparts via US Equity Crowdfunding. Why?

Seth C. Oranburg | Mark Geiger

Will crowdfunding ‘democratize’ investing and make startup capital available to a wider range of founders? Our preliminary study suggests that equity crowdfunding is not providing its expected...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
18 Sep 2018

Credit Ratings: What Are They Good For?

ProMarket Writers

The financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath had a broad impact on how the financial system is understood to work and how it influences the wider economy. Macroeconomists have highlighted the role...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
23 Apr 2018

Noncompete Agreements Boost Investment But Stifle Start-Ups

ProMarket Writers

Noncompete agreements, which prevent employees from going to work for competitors or starting competing businesses, have become pretty common: 38 percent of workers have at some point signed a...
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  • Financial Regulation
09 Mar 2018

Machine Learning Funds and Investment Malpractice

Marcos López de Prado

As a consequence of recent advances in pattern recognition, big data and supercomputing, machine learning (ML) can today accomplish tasks that until recently only expert humans could perform. An area...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
23 Jun 2017

Managers’ Personal Bankruptcy Costs and Risk-Taking

David Schoenherr

It has long been argued that strengthening creditor rights facilitates firms’ access to credit financing, leading to larger credit markets and fostering economic growth (La Porta et al. 1997, 1998)...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
29 Mar 2017

Consequences of Mandatory Quarterly Reporting: The U.K. Experience

Suresh Nallareddy | Robert Pozen | Shivaram Rajgopal

The SEC is considering the pros and cons of moving to less frequent semi-annual reporting from the current regime of quarterly reporting for at least certain types of public companies. Yet, it has...
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  • Commercial Law
09 Feb 2017

Zombie Firms and Productivity Weakness in OECD Countries

Müge Adalet McGowan | Dan Andrews | Valentine Millot

With the global economy stuck in a low growth trap, it is crucial to understand the factors behind the weak recovery in potential output growth, and particularly the barriers to productivity growth...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Financial Regulation
05 Jan 2017

‘One Belt, One Road’ and Chinese Investment

Vivienne Bath

Since the inception of the Open Door policy in 1978, foreign investment has been an integral part of China’s economic and development policy. The implementation of China’s policy objectives has been...

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  • Financial Regulation
19 Oct 2016

The First Crowdfunding Investment Contracts in the US

Jack Wroldsen

The first crowdfunding investment offerings in the US include six types of investments: common stock, preferred stock, interest-bearing loans, revenue-sharing arrangements, convertible debt, and...

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  • Corporate Governance
  • M&A
26 Sep 2016

Are Euro-area Corporate Bond Markets Irrelevant?

Bastian von Beschwitz | Conor Howells

In a recently published paper, we find that access to corporate bond markets affects investment in the US, but not in the euro-area. Euro-area bond markets seem to be irrelevant because firms receive...

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