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Shareholder Litigation and Corporate Social Responsibility

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2022
This research examines the relation between shareholder litigation and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Exploiting exogenous changes in shareholder litigation rights following the staggered adoption of universal demand laws by U.S.
S. Freund, N. Nguyen, Hieu V. Phan
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Litigation Risk Management Through Corporate Payout Policy

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2022
Firms modify their payout policy in anticipation of future litigation costs. We examine a comprehensive sample of U.S. corporate lawsuits and find that firms facing significant litigation risk pay lower dividends, and in some cases omit dividends while ...
Matteo P. Arena, Brandon Julio
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Human rights-based climate litigation: a Latin American cartography

Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism, 2022
This article maps climate litigation developments in Latin America and their human rights and constitutional rights implications. As in other regions of the Global South, groups and individuals in Latin America have engaged in litigation to counter ...
Juan Auz
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Shareholder Litigation and Corporate Innovation

Management Sciences, 2020
We investigate whether and to what extent shareholder litigation shapes corporate innovation by examining the staggered adoption of universal demand laws in 23 states from 1989 to 2005.
Chen Lin, Sibo Liu, Gustavo Manso
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Courting innovation: The effects of litigation risk on corporate innovation

Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021
In this study, we examine the impact of class action litigation shocks on corporate innovation. Our experimental design is based on an unanticipated court ruling that reduces the risk of shareholder class action lawsuits for firms located within the ...
M. Hassan, R. Houston, M. Karim
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PREDICTING THE LITIGATION OUTCOME OF PPP PROJECT DISPUTES BETWEEN PUBLIC AUTHORITY AND PRIVATE PARTNER USING AN ENSEMBLE MODEL

Journal of Business and Economic Management, 2021
Apart from the loss of time and money, disputes between public authority and private partner in China’s public-private partnership (PPP) projects are destroying the government’s image of PPP support and the private partner’s investment confidence.
Xiaoxi Zheng, Yisheng Liu, Junxin Jiang, L. M. Thomas, N. Su   +4 more
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Climate justice and rights-based litigation in a post-Paris world

, 2021
In spite of the 2015 Paris Agreement requiring all Parties, irrespective of their development status, to take climate action, the operationalization of climate justice in global climate governance and policy has been fraught.
Charles Beauregard, D. Carlson, Stacy‐ann Robinson, Charles Cobb, Mykela Patton   +4 more
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Federal Judge Ideology: A New Measure of Ex Ante Litigation Risk

Journal of Accounting Research, 2019
Drawing on the political theory of judicial decision making, our paper proposes a new and parsimonious ex ante litigation risk measure: federal judge ideology. We find that judge ideology complements existing measures of litigation risk based on industry
Allen H Huang, Kai Wai Hui, Reeyarn Zhiyang Li   +2 more
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The need to validate exogenous shocks: Shareholder derivative litigation, universal demand laws and firm behavior

Journal of Accounting & Economics, 2021
Several recent studies argue that the adoption of universal demand (UD) laws represent an exogenous decline in litigation risk by increasing the procedural hurdles associated with shareholder derivative litigation.
Dain C. Donelson, Laura Kettell, John M. McInnis, Sara Toynbee   +3 more
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A Trojan Horse Inside the Gates? Knowledge Spillovers during Patent Litigation

Academy of Management Journal, 2021
While patent litigation is an important appropriability mechanism for protecting firms’ proprietary knowledge, through the litigation process, valuable knowledge may unintentionally spill over from...
Kiran S. Awate, Mona V. Makhija
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