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How Board Gender Diversity Affects the Relation between CSR and Firm Value

Reynolds Holding

Research shows that socially responsible activities enhance firm value while irresponsible social activities destroy value and that firms with more women directors tend to do better on social and environmental issues.

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Does Mandatory Board Gender Balancing Reduce Firm Value?

Reynolds Holding

As a social-policy instrument, forced board-gender balancing is in principle unrelated to firms’ economic performance. Nonetheless, imposing such a policy may have unintended consequences (positive or negative) for firm value, which is important for all of a firm’s constituencies – not only shareholders – to understand properly.

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How Private Rights of Action in Securities Laws Affect the Capital Markets

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Few topics in the corporate and securities law literature are as controversial as securities class actions – that is, actions in which shareholders of public firms seek to collectively obtain compensation for damages resulting from false or misleading statements in corporate disclosures.

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When Banks Fail, Companies Suffer: The Intricate Relationship between Bankruptcy Risk and Company Valuation

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"The bankruptcy of banks can have a ripple effect on the value of companies that work with the bank, and it's an aspect of valuation that cannot be ignored." A firm's value and the risk of the financial crisis that banks must deal with can have complicated and diverse relationships. Says Tamir Levy, Ph.D.,

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A Lawyer’s Guide to Empirical Corporate Governance

Reynolds Holding

Likewise, judges in cases involving corporate governance matters such as anti-takeover devices and fiduciary duties have cited those studies when assessing the consequences of different governance mechanisms for firm value. The second is to evaluate what happens to firmsvalues after they adopt or remove a governance provision.

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The Challenges of Succeeding a Long-Tenured CEO

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Cleanup Measures Around Turnover Events The figure shows the mean cleanup activity (writeoffs) around the CEO turnover year (t=0). The time window is three years before to three years after the event year [-3;+3]. For each t there are 2428 observations, which is the number of turnover events in our sample. REFERENCES Ali, A.,

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Appraiser Newsroom

Pratt & ASA Educational Foundation Valuing Fraction Interests in Real Estate 2.0 , by Dennis A. Why: ASA Educational Foundation’s annual auction raises funds to give course-taking grants to up-and-coming appraisers which benefits our future membership, supports development of appraisal textbooks, and much more.