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The Home Court Advantage in International Corporate LitigationUtpal BhattacharyaIndiana University Bloomington - Department of Finance Neal GalpinUniversity of Melbourne - Department of Finance; Financial Research Network (FIRN) Bruce HaslemSouthern Utah University - Department of Economics and Finance August 2006 AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper FSU College of Law, Law, Business & Economics Paper No. # Abstract: Using a comprehensive sample of 2,361 public U.S. corporate defendants and 715 public foreign corporate defendants in U.S. federal courts in the period 1995-2000, we find that the market reaction at the announcement of a U.S. federal lawsuit is less negative for U.S. corporate defendants. We find that this market reaction is rational; U.S. firms are less likely to lose than foreign firms controlling for year, industry, type of litigation, size and profitability. This may still reflect a sample selection bias. We control for this bias, and the results remain. We thus cannot rule out that U.S. firms have a home court advantage in U.S. federal courts.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 58 Keywords: Corporate litigation, ADR, event study, home bias JEL Classification: G12, G15, K40, N20 working papers seriesDate posted: November 21, 2005 ; Last revised: June 23, 2008Suggested CitationContact Information
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