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Although China seems to have taken far longer than Western developed nations such as the UK, the U.S., and Germany to create a modern corporate system, the imperial Qing government promulgated as early as 1904 a corporate law that included …
Research has begun to analyze the tone and narrative structure of earnings announcements after decades of focusing on market reactions to the earnings news itself. One conclusion from this literature is that language matters – the tone (i.e., the excess …
The legal advisory market for major corporate transactions is dominated by a relatively small number of elite law firms. What value do these law firms provide? Regulatory expertise, innovative drafting, speed of execution, and reputational cachet have all been offered …
Herd behavior is a widely used notion met in different contexts and disciplines, from neurology and zoology to sociology, psychology, economics and finance. In economics and finance the term herd behavior usually suggests the process where agents tend to imitate …
The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy recently published a symposium issue on the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc. (“Halliburton II”).[1] In my contribution, …
Section 4c(a)(5)(C) of the Commodities Exchange Act (CEA), 7 U.S.C. § 6c(a)(5)(C), newly added to the CEA by the Dodd-Frank reform legislation, prohibits spoofing as well as activity that is “of the character” of spoofing. The statute defines “spoofing” but …
At the outset, let me give the requisite reminder that the views I express today are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Commission or its staff.[1]
Today I thought I would speak about our path-breaking …
In their influential 1984 article The Mechanisms of Market Efficiency[1], Ron Gilson and Reinier Kraakman put forward a causal framework for understanding how new information becomes incorporated into the price of publicly-traded equity securities. This framework was grounded …
Effective September 28, 2015, the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE” or “the Exchange”) amended Section 202.06 of its Listed Company Manual (the “Manual”) to:
On July 25, 2015, Judge Barbara Lynn of the Northern District of Texas issued a formative opinion in the class actions securities arena. The case, The Erica P. John Fund, Inc., et al. v. Halliburton Co., et al., No. …
Global climate change is the most pressing environmental problem of our time. This fact has led legal scholars and policymakers to debate the relative environmental effectiveness, efficiency, and justice of different public policy instruments such as carbon taxes, cap-and-trade systems, …