• Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance 

      Zhang, Xiaoyu (Doctoral thesis, 2019-06)
      This dissertation consists of three independent papers about the effect of going public on loan contracting and how institutional investors affect investments in corporate social responsibility. The first paper studies ...
    • Partial Adjustment to Public Information in the Pricing of IPOs 

      Bakke, Einar; Leite, Tore E.; Thorburn, Karin S. (Working paper, 2016-01)
      Extant literature shows that IPO first-day returns are correlated with market returns preceding the issue. We propose a new explanation for this puzzling predictability by adding a public signal to Benveniste and Spindt ...