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Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele

By: George Serafeim
In this paper, I examine the relation between Integrated Reporting (IR) and the composition of a firm's investor base. I hypothesize and find that firms that practice IR have a more long-term oriented investor base with more dedicated and fewer transient investors.... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Reporting; Sustainability Reporting; Long-term Investing; Short-termism; Accounting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Environmental Sustainability; Investment; Corporate Governance
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  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele

Keywords: by George Serafeim; Accounting
  • Winter 2021
  • Article

Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Causal Evidence from Massachusetts

By: Robert Daines, Shelley Xin Li and Charles C.Y. Wang
We study the effect of staggered boards (SBs) using a quasi-experiment: a 1990 law that imposed an SB on all Massachusetts-incorporated firms. The law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, investment in CAPEX and R&D, patents, higher-quality patented innovations, and... View Details
Keywords: Staggered Board; Entrenchment; Life-cycle; Tobin's Q; Innovation; Profitability; Investor Composition; Governing and Advisory Boards; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Institutional Investing; Value
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  • 06 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

What if a bedrock method that investors have relied on for decades to find cheap-but-promising stocks to buy low and sell high no longer works well? The book-to-market ratio has been used since at least the Great Depression to identify... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 2015
  • Chapter

Thirty Years of Evolution in the Roles of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance

By: John C. Coates
This chapter presents evidence that shifts in the composition and roles of institutions have been at least as important, if not more so, than aggregate increases in institutional ownership. Over the past 30 years, institutions have come to play more varied roles in... View Details
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  • June 2009
  • Journal Article

Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities

By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign direct investment (FDI). The worldwide tax regime employed by the U.S. potentially distorts this choice by penalizing FDI, relative to FPI, in... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Portfolio; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Diversification; United States
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  • January 2020 (Revised December 2024)
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Governing PG&E

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
The five commissioners of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) listened intently at a public forum in April 2019 as PG&E Corporation’s out-going chairman Richard Kelly described the company’s proposed new board. PG&E, which provided electricity and natural... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Board Of Directors; Board Dynamics; Business Ethics; Business Model Innovation; Corporate Boards; Energy Efficiency; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Government And Business; Hedge Funds; Institutional Investors; Legal Aspects Of Business; Regulated Monopolies; Regulation; Shareholders; Stakeholder Management; Strategy And Execution; Utilities; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Capital Structure; Climate Change; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Environmental Sustainability; Executive Compensation; Leadership; Management; Safety; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; California; United States
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  • 27 Oct 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Stock Price Fragility

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & David Thesmar
  • Research Summary

Board Independence and the Design of Executive Compensation

In this project, I analyze the compensation decisions of boards of directors. Compensation decisions not only serve to motivate executives, but also affect a board's reputation for independence. Although greater managerial influence over the board has the obvious... View Details
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle

By: David Lopez-Salido, Jeremy C. Stein and Egon Zakrajsek
Using U.S. data from 1929 to 2013, we show that elevated credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 is associated with a decline in economic activity in years t and t + 1. Underlying this result is the existence of predictable mean reversion in credit-market conditions.... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Credit; Macroeconomics
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  • 05 Aug 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy

Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew C. Weinzierl
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

occupational segregation on which most prior research has focused. We examine more than 40 years of longitudinal data on the racial employment composition of every large private-sector workplace in the United States to calculate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

venture capital firm. Furthermore, each of the investors in Greylock's first fund participated in all succeeding partnerships. Elfers was among the first to pioneer the limited partnership structure of the modern venture capital firm with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group believes that understanding View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

we find that gentrification, as measured by changes in the educational, age, and racial composition within a zip code, is strongly associated with increases in the numbers of grocery stores, cafes, restaurants, and bars, with little... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

perceived by workers. Rouen set out to explore the factors at play. He obtained data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for 931 firms in the S&P 1500 between 2006 and 2013, including total employee compensation and the composition... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

capital to the best ideas, weeding out the bad ones. Investors have the challenge of sorting through the overwhelming number of ideas to discern the good ones, a process compared to finding a needle in a haystack. They often lack the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

Roundtable. These findings are consistent with the view that financial markets placed a positive value on shareholder access, as implemented in the SEC's 2010 Rule. The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

critical processes the board and its committees must perform to meet these external objectives; and highlights the board's composition and skills, the information packages, and the meeting dynamics that enable the board to perform its... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

and pointed to the future. These had various names, such as Babson's Composite Plot and the Harvard Economic Service's Index of General Business Conditions. Forecasters also devoted time to sales and marketing. Successful forecasting... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

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