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Medicine Development and Access for Rare Diseases: Can We Do Better?
ABSTRACT Recent advances in molecular biology and genomics have significantly enhanced our understanding of rare diseases. While enabling the development of highly targeted therapies, it also leads to complexity in the development, regulation, and accessibility of orphan medicines.
Carla E. M. Hollak +14 more
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Economic factors underlying biodiversity loss. [PDF]
Dasgupta P, Levin S.
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Co‐opted Boards and the Obfuscation of Financial Reports
This study investigates the relationship between board co‐option and the obfuscation of financial disclosures in a comprehensive sample of 9,620 10‐K filings by 1,076 US‐listed firms between 1996 and 2018. Our empirical results are consistent with our hypotheses that board co‐option partly explains the obfuscation of financial reports.
Abongeh A. Tunyi +3 more
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Stock Index Spot-Futures Arbitrage Prediction Using Machine Learning Models. [PDF]
Sheng Y, Ma D.
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Call Me Maybe: Corporate Bond Prices Upon Missed Call Opportunities
ABSTRACT In a sample of discretely callable corporate bonds, we find excess returns of approximately 40 bps realized on the release of the issuer's decision to call or not to call. The bonds that could have been profitably called (in‐the‐money bonds) but are not called contribute the most to the bond price jump. We attribute the jump to the revaluation
Alexey Ivashchenko, Michael Rockinger
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The Spillover Effect of Media Ownership on Mainstream Media Discourse
ABSTRACT This article investigates the spillover effect of a firm's media ownership on reporting by unaffiliated mainstream media outlets, using a sample of Chinese publicly listed firms. We find that firms with ownership stakes in media companies receive more coverage and more positive tones from unaffiliated mainstream media outlets than other firms ...
Xin Yu, Shijun Guo, Robert Faff
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Product Market Threats and Leases
ABSTRACT We document robust evidence of increased corporate leasing in the presence of product market threats. This finding is robust to a battery of tests exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in product market threats to address the potentially endogenous nature of leasing and product markets, including Chinese import penetration, the granting of ...
Douglas (D. J.) Fairhurst +3 more
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Employee diversity and litigation risk: Evidence from the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Abstract We examine the valuation effects of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which increases potential litigation over discriminatory compensation. Firms with relatively fewer women exhibit significant 3‐day abnormal returns of −0.61% around the passage of the Act, whereas firms with more women show no effect.
Erik Devos +3 more
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Rescue policies for small businesses in the COVID-19 recession. [PDF]
Di Nola A, Kaas L, Wang H.
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Exports, Gender Inequality, and Family Commitment
ABSTRACT This paper examines how exporting firms, gender, and family commitments interact to shape wage disparities. Using Finnish matched employer–employee data, we estimate wage equations that control for firm, worker, and match‐specific unobservables.
Porjai Chalermsook +2 more
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