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- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
500,000 listings and counting. (By way of comparison, hotel industry giant Marriott offers around 530,000 rooms worldwide.) Airbnb, which has been valued at roughly $2.5 billion, recently closed a $200 million round of financing, according to a February 6 View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
were tax-minded based on their personal actions before the 8.8 percent increase took effect. Pérez Cavazos and Silva used the Execucomp database and SEC Form 4 filings to examine the positions and behavior of the top five executives of... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
are actively breaking the rules of Regulation FD. Rather, he is suggesting that the SEC may need to spend more time determining what constitutes material information. For an astute observer, simply observing a CEO's emotions during a... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
in their portfolio. Specifically, we look at the abnormal returns on stock trades following loan renegotiations. By collecting SEC filings of loan amendments, we are able to identify institutional investors that had access to private... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
be actually brought home to the investor." Most of our social contracts are built on the assumption that individual accountability influences human behavior. Indeed, the recent move by the SEC to require CEOs to personally attest to... View Details
- Profile
Phillip Michael Strazzulla
amount of money for a fifth-grader”—he was hooked on finance. Eager to depart the homogeneous town of Cohasset, the upscale South Shore community near Boston where he grew up, Strazzulla headed to New York University to study finance. Internships at the View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
the service. But that’s not going to happen because the largest investors in bonds — banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds — aren’t willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I propose is a neutral third-party... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors: Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the idiosyncratic influence of standard setters in standard setting. In particular, we examine how FASB members' and SEC... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
modern regulators, such as the SEC whistleblower program [a similar program authorized in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act], the DOT’s Motor Vehicle Safety whistleblower program, and more recently the Treasury’s anti-money-laundering whistleblower... View Details
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
wage comparisons affect firm policies on executive pay? This paper explores that question using a 1992 SEC proxy disclosure rule that mandated increased disclosure of executive pay. We argue that this rule differentially increased wage... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with backgrounds in financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
great that in 1965 the SEC even raided ARD’s offices to conduct a “surprise audit.” Doriot was so enraged at the SEC that he kept a file of vituperative letters addressed to the agency that were stamped:... View Details
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
113-089 In late 2012, IASB chair Hans Hoogervorst, just over a year into his term, must address several serious geopolitical challenges that can derail IFRS growth. The SEC has issued a report outlining why the U.S. should not adopt IFRS.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
the SEC partially regulates peer-to-peer lending, and state banking laws apply, but the online small business lending sector is largely unregulated at the federal level. Should borrower and lender protections be consolidated under a... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
crowdfunded real estate faces resistance from industry leaders, especially in regards to the concern of fraud, and SEC regulations on crowdfunding remain undetermined at the time of the case. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
sensitive and important issue in practice, as evidenced by corporate pushback to recent proposals for additional mandatory disclosures. For example, the SEC has proposed mandatory disclosure of certain compensation information; however,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
consumer-driven system would require transparency in health-care quality and costs. Can you imagine shopping in a supermarket where you don't know products' prices or ingredients? In the 1930s, President Roosevelt created the SEC to... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
example, recent SEC proposals to reform the regulation of money market funds, which were a major problem during the financial crisis, don't go far enough. [For more details on what I think we should do in these areas, see my paper on... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
company documents and SEC filings looking for problems, unreasonable risks, or even signs of fraud. "I see much more time being spent—more meetings, longer meetings, more meaningful meetings, and more pre-meeting materials to be... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
since the SEC was created in the 1930s, so this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to contribute to building an orga-nization within government; to see how interactions between individuals influence the design, processes, and results... View Details