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We identify the power of institutional blockholders to influence management using previous occurrences of forced CEO turnover at other firms in the blockholders' overall portfolio. We create a “powerful blockholder linkage” measure that strongly predicts future forced CEO turnover. These...
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We identify a group of investors with a track-record of owning firms that undergo securities class action lawsuits. We hypothesize and find evidence that these investors are ineffective monitors of corporate management. Firms with a large proportion of these shareholders are at greater risk of...
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We study how overconfident CEOs communicate with the market and whether this has implications on the firm's information environment. Textual analysis reveals that overconfident CEOs communicate using less negative tone in their 10K/Q filings. Our evidence suggests that overconfident CEOs provide...
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If a lack of trust causes investors to discount the information in accounting numbers, then the stock price will tend to under-react to earnings surprises. Using survey measures of interpersonal trust across regions of the United States, we find greater stock price reactions to earnings...
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