Monitoring Capital and the Decision to Go Public

Shahram Amini¹, Andrew MacKinlay², Chishen Wei³, Johan Sulaeman⁴

1: University of Denver; 2: Virginia Tech; 3: Hong Kong Polytechnic University; 4: National University of Singapore

Discussant: Roberto Tubaldi (BI Norwegian Business School)

What do market participants learn from share repurchases? Evidence from a return decomposition

Philip Valta, Sascha Jakob

University of Bern, Switzerland

Discussant: Shahram Amini (University of Denver)

Consumer Privacy and Value of Consumer Data

Ilja Kantorovitch¹, Mehmet Canayaz², Roxana Mihet³

1: EPFL, Switzerland; 2: Smeal College of Business, Penn State, United States of America; 3: University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Discussant: Douglas Cook (University of Alabama)

The Mitigation of Reputational Risk via Responsive CSR: Evidence from Securities Class Action Lawsuits

Douglas Cook², Daewoung Choi¹, Tony Via³, Weiwei Zhang⁴

1: Louisiana State University, Shreveport; 2: University of Alabama; 3: Kent State University; 4: James Madison University

Discussant: Santanu Kundu (University of Mannheim)

CEO Personal Reputation and Financial Misconduct

Chen Yang¹, Zicheng Lei², Dimitris Petmezas¹, P. Raghavendra Rau³

1: Durham University, United Kingdom; 2: King's College London, United Kingdom; 3: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Discussant: Felix von Meyerinck (University of Zurich)

The Financial Channels of Labor Rigidities: Evidence from Portugal.

Ettore Panetti¹, Edoardo Maria Acabbi², Alessandro Sforza³

1: Università degli Studi Federico II, CSEF, SUERF, UECE-ISEG; 2: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Northwestern University; 3: Università di Bologna, CESifo, CEPR

Discussant: Emilia Garcia-Appendini (Norges Bank and University of Zurich)

Non-Compete Agreements and Labor Allocation Across Product Markets

Clemens Mueller

University of Mannheim, Germany

Discussant: Daniel Metzger (Rotterdam School of Management)

Which workers suffer (or benefit) from firm-level uncertainty shocks?

Daniel Metzger¹, Andrea Caggese², Vicente Cunat³

1: Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands; 2: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain; 3: LSE, United Kingdom

Discussant: Chen Yang (Durham University Business School)