Kathleen Weiss Hanley

Lehigh University - College of Business

Bolton-Perella Chair in Finance and Director, Center for Financial Services

Bethlehem, PA 18015

United States

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

c/o the Royal Academies of Belgium

Rue Ducale 1 Hertogsstraat

1000 Brussels

Belgium

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1.

Investor Reliance on ESG Ratings and Stock Price Performance

SAFE Working Paper No. 310
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 10 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2024
Aleksandra Rzeźnik, Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Loriana Pelizzon
York University - Schulich School of Business, Lehigh University - College of Business and Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
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Corporate Social Responsibility, ESG Rating Agencies, Sustainable Investments, Socially Responsible Investing, ESG, Investment, Stock Price

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The Information Content of IPO Prospectuses

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 23, p. 2821-2864, 2010, AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 15 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2012
Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Gerard Hoberg
Lehigh University - College of Business and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department
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IPOs, Disclosure, Underpricing, Initial Public Offerings, Book Building, Due Diligence, Equity Offerings

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Short Selling in Initial Public Offerings

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 98, No. 2, 2010
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2011
Amy K. Edwards and Kathleen Weiss Hanley
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Lehigh University - College of Business
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IPO, short selling, underpricing, price support, short covering, naked short sale, failures to deliver, price stabilization

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Portfolio Similarity and Asset Liquidation in the Insurance Industry

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Portfolio Similarity and Asset Liquidation in the Insurance Industry

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 10 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2020
Giulio Girardi, Kathleen Weiss Hanley, Stanislava (Stas) Nikolova, Loriana Pelizzon and Mila Getmansky Sherman
Securities and Exchange Commission, Lehigh University - College of Business, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance
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Interconnectedness, asset liquidation, similarity, financial stability, insurance companies, fire sales

Portfolio Similarity and Asset Liquidation in the Insurance Industry

SAFE Working Paper No. 224
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 27 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2018
Giulio Girardi, Kathleen Weiss Hanley, Stanislava (Stas) Nikolova, Loriana Pelizzon and Mila Getmansky Sherman
Securities and Exchange Commission, Lehigh University - College of Business, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance
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Interconnectedness, Asset Liquidation, Similarity, Financial Stability, Insurance Companies, SIFI

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Dynamic Interpretation of Emerging Risks in the Financial Sector

Forthcoming Review of Financial Studies
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 11 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2019
Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Gerard Hoberg
Lehigh University - College of Business and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department
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Emerging Risk, Bank, Financial Institutions, Financial Crisis, Computational Linguistics, Text Analytics, Failure

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The JOBS Act and the Costs of Going Public

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The JOBS Act and the Costs of Going Public

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 07 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2017
Susan Chaplinsky, Kathleen Weiss Hanley and S. Katie Moon
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, Lehigh University - College of Business and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
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JOBS Act, IPOs, underpricing, disclosure, underwriting

The Jobs Act and the Costs of Going Public

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 55, No. 4, 2017
Posted: 13 Nov 2017
Susan Chaplinsky, Kathleen Weiss Hanley and S. Katie Moon
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, Lehigh University - College of Business and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business

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IPOs; JOBS Act; Disclosure; Regulation; Underpricing

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Going Public Abroad

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Going Public Abroad

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2013
Cecilia Caglio, Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Jennifer Marietta-Westberg
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Lehigh University - College of Business and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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IPO, competitiveness, foreign listing, cross-listing

Going Public Abroad

FEDS Working Paper No. 2013-68
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Nov 2013
Cecilia Caglio, Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Jennifer Marietta-Westberg
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Lehigh University - College of Business and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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IPO, cross listing

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Litigation Risk, Strategic Disclosure and the Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings

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Litigation Risk, Strategic Disclosure and the Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 06 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2012
Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Gerard Hoberg
Lehigh University - College of Business and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department
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Initial Public Offerings, Litigation Risk, Liability Risk, Strategic Disclosure, IPO Prospectus, Text Analysis

Litigation Risk, Strategic Disclosure and the Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings

FEDS Working Paper No. 2011-12
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2014
Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Gerard Hoberg
Lehigh University - College of Business and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department
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initial public offerings, disclosure, litigation, securities underwriting

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Investor Demand for Information in Newly Issued Securities

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2018
Scott W. Bauguess, John Cooney and Kathleen Weiss Hanley
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance, Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Lehigh University - College of Business
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IPOs, bookbuilding, EDGAR, disclosure, underpricing, search traffic, information acquisition

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Strategic Estimation of Asset Fair Values

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 23 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2018
Kathleen Weiss Hanley, Alan D. Jagolinzer and Stanislava (Stas) Nikolova
Lehigh University - College of Business, University of Cambridge Judge Business School and University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Fair value, Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, SFAS 157, insurance companies, regulatory capital, asset values, estimation bias

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Rethinking the Use of Credit Ratings in Capital Regulations: Evidence from the Insurance Industry

Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 20 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2020
Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Stanislava (Stas) Nikolova
Lehigh University - College of Business and University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Insurance companies; Credit ratings; Capital requirements; RMBS; CMBS; Corporate bonds; Regulation; Dodd-Frank Act

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Strategic Regulatory Non-Disclosure: The Case of the Missing Form D

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 23 Feb 2023
Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Qianqian Yu
Lehigh University - College of Business and Lehigh University
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venture capital, disclosure, regulation, Form D, private firms, proprietary information, capital raising, securities issuance

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Risk Disclosure and the Pricing of Corporate Debt Issues in Private and Public Markets

Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 3700162
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 20 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2025
Kelly Nianyun Cai, Kathleen Weiss Hanley, Alan Guoming Huang and Xiaofei Zhao
University of Michigan at Dearborn - School of Management, Lehigh University - College of Business, University of Waterloo and Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business
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Debt IPO, Risk Factor, Topic Analysis, Credit Risk, Textual Analysis

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The Economics of Primary Markets

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 03 Oct 2017
Kathleen Weiss Hanley
Lehigh University - College of Business
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IPOs, SEOs, Private Offerings, Securities Regulation, Underpricing, JOBS Act, Securities Offering Reform

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Regulatory Monitoring Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Oct 2007
Cindy R. Alexander and Kathleen Weiss Hanley
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Lehigh University - College of Business
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Sarbanes-Oxley, internal controls, volatility, regulation, monitoring

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The Role of 'Expert Reviewers' in Private Capital Markets

Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 3715643, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper 739/2021
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 16 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2021
Reena Aggarwal, Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Xiaofei Zhao
Georgetown University - Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business, Lehigh University - College of Business and Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business
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Private Markets, Information Asymmetry, Capital Raising, ICO, FinTech

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What Does it Take to List Abroad? The Role of Global Underwriters

FEDS Working Paper No. 2016-41
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 May 2016 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2016
Cecilia Caglio, Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Jennifer Marietta-Westberg
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Lehigh University - College of Business and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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The Salience of ESG Ratings for Stock Pricing: Evidence from (Potentially) Confused Investors

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16334
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 14 Jul 2021
Loriana Pelizzon, Aleksandra Rzeznik and Kathleen Weiss Hanley
Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, York University and Lehigh University - College of Business
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The Marketing of Closed-End Fund IPOs: Evidence from Transactions Data

Journal of Financial Intermediation, Vol. 5, pp. 127-159, 1996
Posted: 14 Feb 2008
Kathleen Weiss Hanley, Charles M.C. Lee and Paul J. Sequin
Lehigh University - College of Business, Foster School of Business, University of Washington and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Venture Capitalist Certification in Initial Public Offerings

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Venture Capitalist Certification in Initial Public Offerings

Journal of Finance, Vol. 46, pp. 879-903, 1991
Posted: 12 Feb 2008
Kathleen Weiss Hanley and William L. Megginson
Lehigh University - College of Business and University of Oklahoma

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The Post-Offering Price Performance of Closed-End Funds

Financial Management, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1989
Posted: 12 Feb 2008
Kathleen Weiss Hanley
Lehigh University - College of Business

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Price Stabilization in the Market for New Issues

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 34, No. 2, 1993
Posted: 12 Feb 2008
Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Paul J. Sequin
Lehigh University - College of Business and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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The Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings and the Partial Adjustment Phenomenon

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 34, No. 2, 1993
Posted: 12 Feb 2008
Kathleen Weiss Hanley
Lehigh University - College of Business

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Evidence on the Strategic Allocation of Initial Public Offerings

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Evidence on the Strategic Allocation of Initial Public Offerings

Posted: 20 Dec 1998
Kathleen Weiss Hanley and William J. Wilhelm
Lehigh University - College of Business and University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce

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Evidence on the Strategic Allocation of Initial Public Offerings

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 37, No. 2, 1995
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Kathleen Weiss Hanley and William J. Wilhelm
Lehigh University - College of Business and University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce

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An Economic Framework for Determining Systemically Important Financial Institutions

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 14 Apr 2016
Kathleen Weiss Hanley
Lehigh University - College of Business
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SIFI, Economic Analysis, FSOC