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July 2013 (Revised August 2013)
Case

Seeking Alpha in the Afterlife: CMG Life Services and the Life Settlement Industry

By: Lauren Cohen

Keywords: Asset Management; Insurance Industry; United States

2013
Chapter

Who Chooses Board Members?

By: Ali Akyol and Lauren Cohen

We exploit a recent regulation passed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to explore the nomination of board members to US publicly traded firms. In particular, we focus on firms’ use of executive search firms versus allowing internal members (often... View Details

Keywords: Boards; Boards Of Directors; Executive Search Firms; Governance; SEC Regulation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Executive Compensation

March 2013
Article

Misvaluing Innovation

By: Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy

We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and relatively simple to compute, and yet the stock market ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Return Predictability; R＆D; Information; Forecasting and Prediction; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention

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February 2013
Supplement

AQR's Delta Strategy (CW)

By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher J. Malloy

February 2013
Supplement

AQR's Momentum Funds (A) (CW)

By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher J. Malloy

February 2013
Supplement

Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market (CW)

By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher J. Malloy

February 2013
Supplement

Innovating into Active ETFs: Factor Funds Capital Management LLC (CW)

By: Lauren Cohen

June 2012
Article

Decoding Inside Information

By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy and Lukasz Pomorski

Using a simple empirical strategy, we decode the information in insider trading. Exploiting the fact that insiders trade for a variety of reasons, we show that there is predictable, identifiable "routine" insider trading that is not informative for the future of firms.... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Law Enforcement; Opportunities; Geographic Location; Business Earnings

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2012
Article

Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors

By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher Malloy

We provide evidence that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data on... View Details

Keywords: Recruitment; Management; Corporate Governance; Performance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Prejudice and Bias

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May 2012 (Revised February 2013)
Teaching Note

Innovating into Active ETFs: Factor Funds Capital Management LLC (TN)

By: Lauren Cohen, Kenneth Froot and Timothy Gray

May 2012
Article

Complicated Firms

By: Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou

We exploit a novel setting in which the same piece of information affects two sets of firms: one set of firms requires straightforward processing to update prices, while the other set requires more complicated analyses to incorporate the same piece of information into... View Details

Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Information; Price; Forecasting and Prediction; Complexity; Mathematical Methods

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March 2012 (Revised February 2013)
Teaching Note

AQR's DELTA Strategy (TN)

By: Daniel Bergstresser, Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy, Randolph B. Cohen and Timothy Gray

March 2012 (Revised February 2013)
Teaching Note

AQR's Momentum Funds (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Daniel Bergstresser, Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy, Randolph B. Cohen and Timothy Gray

March 2012 (Revised March 2012)
Background Note

Introduction to Short Selling

By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy

March 2012
Teaching Note

Fundamental Analysis in Emerging Markets: Autoweb Holdings and Tren Anuncio Ràpido (TN)

By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy and Tim Gray

February 2012
Module Note

The Commoditization of Investment Management

By: Lauren Cohen

Keywords: Investment Management; Financial Management

January 2012 (Revised March 2012)
Case

Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market

By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy

This case examines Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s decision to enter the retirement market with their new "Dimensional Managed DC" product, a complete retirement solution that aimed to provide investors with what they really wanted: the same standard of living in... View Details

Keywords: Retirement; Asset Management

January 2012 (Revised February 2013)
Teaching Note

Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market (TN)

By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy and Timothy Gray

Keywords: Retirement; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry

January 2012 (Revised March 2012)
Teaching Note

Business Intelligence Advisors (BIA), Inc.: Finding the Hidden Meaning in Corporate Disclosures (TN)

By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy and Timothy Gray

Keywords: Corporate Disclosure

December 2011
Article

Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

By: Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval and Christopher J. Malloy

This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In... View Details

Keywords: Spending; Private Sector; Taxation; Innovation and Invention; Interest Rates; Business and Government Relations; Investment; Employment; Power and Influence

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