Identifying the corporate controller (controlling shareholder, ultimate owner) is an essential prerequisite for any debate on the corporate governance of a specific firm and of entire markets. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive, precise and economically sound method for identifying...

Crowdfunding markets enable entrepreneurs to communicate material information even when it is nonstandard or more difficult to quantify or verify. Using a large crowdsourced survey that asks participants to rate live Kickstarter campaigns, we show that human raters outperform machines in...

The voting rules proposed by Dodgson and Young are both designed to find the candidate closest to being a Condorcet winner, according to two different notions of proximity; the score of a given candidate is known to be hard to compute under both rules. In this paper, we put forward an LP-based...