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Lawyer CEOs

Todd Henderson, Irena Hutton, Danling Jiang, and Matt Pierson ♦ We study when CEOs with legal expertise are valuable for firms. In general, lawyer CEOs are negatively associated with frequency and severity in employment civil rights, contract, labor, personal injury,…

Merger-Driven Listing Dynamics

B. Espen Eckbo and Markus Lithell ♦ Stock-market effectiveness in attracting and retaining firms under public ownership depends not only on stand-alone firms’ net listing benefits but also on gains from merging with a public acquirer. Using a novel merger-adjusted listing count,…