Federal ID: 91-6001537
ISSN: 0022-1090 (Print) | 1756-6916 (Online)
Getting Back to the Source: A New Approach to Measuring Ex Ante Litigation Risk Using Plaintiff-Lawyer Views of SEC Filings
Antonis Kartapanis and Christopher G. Yust ♦ This study introduces a new measure of ex ante litigation risk using scrutiny of SEC filings by the source of securities litigation (plaintiffs’ lawyers) to reduce measurement error, relative to existing measures. We show that…