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Partisan Cities: How State‐Local Political Alignment Shapes Credit Risk and Information Processing in the Municipal Bond Market

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
wiley   +1 more source

Alloparenting the investment child: A reply to responses

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Quid Pro Quo? Private Information Flows in Shareholder Activism: Evidence from Mutual Fund Families

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper hypothesizes that information flows from target firms to large shareholders during activist campaigns and that these flows have governance consequences. Focusing on actively managed mutual fund families, we find that informed trading by large‐holding fund families increases during activist campaigns relative to smaller‐holding fund ...
EUNJEE KIM, HAI PHAM
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Newer disability certification guidelines for persons with visual disabilities in India: A review. [PDF]

J Family Med Prim Care
Manna S, Vashist P, Grover S, Bhardwaj A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Incidence, Risk, and Disclosure of Corporate Litigation: Insights from Federal Court Filings

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We assemble and describe a sample of 174,782 lawsuits filed against 218,437 public‐company lawsuit‐defendants in federal district court from 2006 to 2021. These lawsuits involve an array of allegations, including product liability, civil rights discrimination, contract breaches, improper compensation and labor practices, antitrust violations ...
MARY BROOKE BILLINGS, ROBERT W. HOLTHAUSEN, CHRISTINE PETROVITS, DANYE WANG   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity on the bench: An analysis of gendered biases in the language of Australian Family Law Court judgments. [PDF]

PLoS One
Akand E, Fan Y, Wobcke W, Sisson SA, Roque MS.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Collective Contracts as a Risk‐Sharing Mechanism for Result‐Based Agri‐Environmental Payments: Experimental Evidence

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Linking payments from agri‐environment schemes to ecological results or to collective outcomes is viewed as a promising way to increase the effectiveness of agri‐environmental conservation. However, the two approaches are rarely combined.
Thomas Rellensmann, Stefanie Engel, Jens Rommel, Fabian Thomas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The long-term impact of debt relief for indigent defendants in a misdemeanor court. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Bing L, Goldstein R, Ho H, Pager D, Western B.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Is land‐use deregulation enough to deliver housing?: The case of institutional frictions in India

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines whether land use deregulation increases housing supply in the presence of additional institutional frictions, such as ill‐defined property rights. India's urban land ceiling (ULC) laws, which put limits on individual ownership of private vacant land in the largest cities, were repealed during the 2000s.
Arnab Dutta, Sahil Gandhi, Richard K. Green   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Jared F. Edgerton, Evelyn Gertz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source