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Welcome Larry Ribstein
I would like to welcome our new colleague, with two brief anecdotes if readers will permit. Four years ago I was a student in a corporate research seminar. That seminar was taught by my mentor, someone with whom Larry has had vibrant scholarly debate. The class was listening to a guest lecturer, a law professor ... Welcome Larry Ribstein
Taxing private equity
The venerable debate over carried interest compensation of private equity managers is heating up again. The NYT’s Andrew Sorkin is predicting Congress will vote to tax it as ordinary income rather than capital gains, which Sorkin thinks is a good thing: Under their current partnership structure, however, [private equity] general partners * * * receive ... Taxing private equity
From Ideoblog to TOTM
After six years on Ideoblog I have decided to move my act over to Truth on the Market. I’m taking this momentous (for me, if not the rest of the world) step for three reasons. First, I’m joining a great bunch of writers, some of whom I’ve known for a long time. TOTM offers what ... From Ideoblog to TOTM
Big News: TOTM Welcomes Larry Ribstein
We are very pleased to announce that Larry Ribstein is joining Truth on the Market. TOTM readers that have been with us from the beginning might recall that we got our start back in 2005 covering at Ideoblog while Larry went on vacation. For most of our readers, I suspect Professor Ribstein will require no ... Big News: TOTM Welcomes Larry Ribstein
The first thing we do, let's kill the quants!
Professor Bainbridge has a provocative post up taking on empirical legal scholarship generally. The While the Professor throws a little bit of a nod toward quantitative work, suggesting it might at least provide some “relevant gist for the analytical mill,” he concludes that “it’s always going to be suspect — and incomplete — in my ... The first thing we do, let's kill the quants!
Update on backdating
It’s been quite a while since we discussed backdating here at TOTM. But back when it was all the rage, we were substantial contributors, formulating (we believe) some of the first fundamental explanations of the issues. Some of the best posts from our backdating archive are here: I look pretty young but I’m just backdated, ... Update on backdating
A Sarbox Update
From Larry Ribstein: A few years later, Henry Butler and I wrote a book decrying SOX, and discussing the evidence that was accumulating against it, as well as the SOX suit. Here’s an excerpt from the book abstract: If the suit is successful, Congress likely will have an opportunity to repair the constitutional defect. Although ... A Sarbox Update
ELS, CELS and Bubbles in Legal Scholarship
Some interesting thoughts from David Zaring and Larry Ribstein on the future of the empirical legal studies movement and its flagship conference, CELS. Zaring asks whether there is enough glue holding the various constituencies within the ELS movement together. Ribstein warns of an empirical bubble and argues that the real need for an umbrella organization ... ELS, CELS and Bubbles in Legal Scholarship
Hedge Funds & The SEC
Thanks so much to my new colleagues at Truth on the Market for inviting me to join an impressive group of scholars on a blog I have followed for many years now. Chairman Frank of House Financial Services has an interesting thought on how to prevent the next financial crisis. Let’s require hedge funds, along ... Hedge Funds & The SEC
Gelbach, Helland and Klick on Single Firm, Single Event Studies
Larry Ribstein points to the new paper from Gelbach, Helland and Klick on Valid Inference in Single Firm, Single Event Studies. This is an important paper with implications for finance, securities litigation and antitrust where event studies are frequently used as economic expert evidence. Ribstein gives a good, non-technical explanation of its contribution: Essentially what’s ... Gelbach, Helland and Klick on Single Firm, Single Event Studies
Some Links
Larry Ribstein on exempting small firms from SOX Bernie Sanders’ “Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist” Bill (but see here) More Professor Birdthistle on Jones v. Harris Michael Ward on the economics of H1N1 (here, here and here) Lots of blogging on the meat market — but I’ve seen nobody discuss what I ... Some Links
What's Wrong With the Endowment Effect?
Gordon Smith asks the question in response to a 16 part post (with slides and pictures!) from John Carney offering up the explanation that the behavioral economists have overclaimed and that “the Endowment Effect may really be a response to the counterparty risk faced by early humans.” Larry Ribstein chimes in with support for Carney ... What's Wrong With the Endowment Effect?
