Kai Li

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business

Canada Research Chair in Corporate Governance, W.M. Young Professor of Finance

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China Academy of Financial Research (CAFR)

1954 Huashan Road

Shanghai P.R.China, 200030

China

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

c/o the Royal Academies of Belgium

Rue Ducale 1 Hertogsstraat

1000 Brussels

Belgium

Canadian Sustainable Finance Network (CSFN)

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Scholarly Papers (83)

1.

Self-Selection Models in Corporate Finance

Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 06-020
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 08 Nov 2005
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
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conditional event studies, endogeneity, Heckman two-step, matching, propensity score, switching regression

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Measuring Corporate Culture Using Machine Learning

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 21 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2020
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen - School of Management and Economics and University of South Florida
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machine learning; word embedding; semi-supervised learning; corporate culture; cultural fit; acculturation; mergers and acquisitions

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The Role of Corporate Culture in Bad Times: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 726/2021
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 24 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2021
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology and Rutgers University - Rutgers School of Business-Camden
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corporate culture; COVID-19; pandemic; demand; supply chain; employees; community; digital transformation; new product development; human capital; machine learning; topic modelling; correlated topic model

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Citation 169

Corporate Innovations and Mergers and Acquisitions

AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 18 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2014
Jan Bena and Kai Li
University of British Columbia - Sauder School of Business and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 1,099 (33,090)
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Asset complementarities, innovation, mergers and acquisitions, synergies, technological overlaps

Corporate Innovations and Mergers and Acquisitions

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 26 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2014
Jan Bena and Kai Li
University of British Columbia - Sauder School of Business and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 1,059 (34,889)
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Innovation, mergers and acquisitions, R&D expenses, patents, synergies, technological overlap

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Corporate Governance Requirements in Canada and the United States: A Legal and Empirical Comparison of the Principles-Based and Rules-Based Approaches

Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Mar 2006
Kai Li and Erinn B. Broshko
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP
Downloads 1,569 (19,846)
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Corporate governance, rules-based approach, principles-based approach, boards, board independence

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Stakeholder Orientation and the Cost of Debt: Evidence from State-level Adoption of Constituency Statutes

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 03 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 14 May 2020
Huasheng Gao, Kai Li and Yujing Ma
Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Downloads 1,564 (19,931)
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stakeholder orientation; constituency statutes; bank loans; cost of debt; corporate social responsibility; debt overhang; legal risk; takeover deterrence

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Mergers and Acquisitions: The Role of Gender

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 22 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2009
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
Downloads 1,463 (22,136)
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bid premium, CEO and director gender, cumulative abnormal announcement period return, independent versus inside female directors, mergers and acquisitions

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Open Market Versus Tender Offer Share Repurchases: A Conditional Event Study

University of British Columbia, Finance Working Paper No. 98-2, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Mar 1999 Last Revised: 09 May 2012
Kai Li and William J. McNally
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics
Downloads 1,298 (26,373)
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Hedge Funds and Chapter 11

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 29 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2011
Wei Jiang, Kai Li and Wei Wang
Emory University Goizueta Business School, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
Downloads 1,249 (27,933)
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Hedge funds, Chapter 11, Loan-to-own, APR deviation, Creditor rights

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Organization Capital and Mergers and Acquisitions

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 20 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2017
Kai Li, Buhui Qiu and Rui Shen
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Sydney Business School and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen - School of Management and Economics
Downloads 1,242 (28,171)
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corporate acquisitions, organization capital, SG&A, cost-cutting, asset turnover, innovative efficiency, withdrawn bids

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Determinants of Corporate Cash Policy: Insights from Private Firms

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2013
Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University, University of Washington and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 1,238 (28,328)
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cash holdings, financing frictions, agency conflicts, private firms, excess cash, speed of adjustment

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Monitoring: Which Institutions Matter?

Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 17 Sep 2006
Kai Li, Jarrad Harford and Xia Chen
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Washington and Singapore Management University - School of Accountancy
Downloads 1,222 (28,867)
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corporate governance, institutional investors, mergers & acquisitions, monitoring, trading

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Citation 5

The Valuation of IPO and SEO Firms

UBC Finance Division, Working Paper No. UBCFIN00-1, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Jun 2001
Kai Li and Gary Koop
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of Leicester - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,139 (31,497)
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Misvaluation, Underpricing, Stochastic frontier, Bayesian inference, Gibbs sampling

The Valuation of IPO and SEO Firms

Forthcoming in Journal of Empirical Finance
Posted: 25 Jun 2001
Kai Li and Gary Koop
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of Leicester - Department of Economics

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Misvaluation, Underpricing, Stochastic frontier, Bayesian inference, Gibbs sampling

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Do Director Elections Matter?

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 17-08
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 24 May 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2017
Boston College - Department of Finance, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Washington University in Saint Louis, John M. Olin Business School
Downloads 1,116 (32,914)
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director elections; director nominations; staggered boards; CEO turnover–performance sensitivity; agency problems; corporate governance

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National Culture and the Value Implication of Corporate Governance

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 24 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2017
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Marketing, University of South Carolina - Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) - Department of Finance and Decision Sciences
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corporate governance; firm value; hierarchical linear model; individualism; national culture; uncertainty avoidance

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Vote Avoidance and Shareholder Voting in Mergers and Acquisitions

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 31, Issue 8, pp. 3176-3211, 2018, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 481/2016
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 01 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2019
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Iowa State University and University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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vote avoidance; shareholder voting; mergers and acquisitions; acquirer announcement returns; regression discontinuity design; agency problems; offer premium; institutional monitoring

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Board Gender Diversity and Corporate Innovation: International Evidence

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 05 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2019
Dale W. Griffin, Kai Li and Ting Xu
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Marketing, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
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board gender diversity; corporate innovation; patent novelty; innovative efficiency; CEO incentives; corporate culture; inventor diversity

Diversification Benefits of Emerging Markets Subject to Portfolio Constraints

Working Paper No. UBCFIN99-5, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Jun 2001
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance
Downloads 1,029 (36,332)
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International diversification, short-sale constraints, home bias, asset allocation, Bayesian inference

Diversification Benefits of Emerging Markets Subject to Portfolio Constraints

Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 10
Posted: 06 Jun 2003
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance

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International diversification, short-sale constraints, home bias, asset allocation, Bayesian inference

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Loans to Chapter 11 Firms: Contract Design, Repayment Risk, and Pricing

European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 794/2021, Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 16 May 2019 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2023
B. Espen Eckbo, Kai Li and Wei Wang
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
Downloads 971 (39,993)
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debtor-in-possession financing, Chapter 11; loan spreads, loan fees, default risk, leveraged loans, relationship lending, rent extraction

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Ownership, Institutions, and Capital Structure: Evidence from China

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2015
Kai Li, Heng Yue and Longkai Zhao
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Singapore Management University - School of Accountancy and Peking University - Department of Finance
Downloads 930 (42,540)
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foreign ownership, leverage, long-term debt, marketization, short-term debt, state ownership

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Information Signaling or Agency Conflicts: What Explains Canadian Open Market Share Repurchases?

University of British Columbia, Finance Working Paper No. 97-13, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Mar 1999
Kai Li and William J. McNally
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics
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Citation 62

Debt Specialization

AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper, Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2012
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Bocconi University - Department of Finance and Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business SciencesBarcelona Graduate School of Economics
Downloads 778 (53,547)
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debt specialization, debt structure, commercial paper, revolving credit facilities, term loans, senior bonds and notes, subordinate bonds and notes, capital leases

Debt Specialization

Midwest Finance Association 2012 Annual Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Sep 2011
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business SciencesBarcelona Graduate School of Economics, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Bocconi University - Department of Finance
Downloads 133 (356,432)
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debt specialization, debt structure, commercial paper, drawn credit lines, term loans, senior bonds and notes, subordinated bonds and notes, capital leases

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Corporate Culture: A Review and Directions for Future Research

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 03 May 2022
Jillian Grennan and Kai Li
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Institue for Business and Social Impact and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 835 (49,360)

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Corporate culture, informal institution, social norms, organizational economics, computational linguistics, intangible assets

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Debt Specialization

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2012
Bocconi University - Department of Finance, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business SciencesBarcelona Graduate School of Economics and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 828 (49,944)
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debt specialization, debt structure, commercial paper, drawn credit lines, term loans, senior bonds and notes, subordinated bonds and notes, capital leases

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How Does Culture Influence Corporate Risk-Taking?

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2015
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Marketing, Singapore Management University - School of Accountancy and Peking University - Department of Finance
Downloads 805 (51,852)
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earnings discretion, formal institutions, harmony, individualism, national culture, corporate risk-taking, uncertainty avoidance

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Are CEOs in Public U.S. Firms Overpaid? New Evidence from Private Firms

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 17 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2012
Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of Utah - Department of Finance
Downloads 771 (54,957)
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CEO annual compensation; equity incentives; pay structure; pay-performance sensitivity; private firms; public firms

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Debtor-in-Possession Financing, Loan-to-Loan, and Loan-to-Own

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2016
Kai Li and Wei Wang
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
Downloads 758 (56,202)
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DIP financing; activist investors; board turnover; CEO turnover; Chapter 11; creditor control; loan-to-own; loan-to-loan

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The Valuation of IPO, Seo and Post-Chapter 11 Firms: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

UBCFIN98-9, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Aug 1998
Kai Li and Gary Koop
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of Leicester - Department of Economics
Downloads 741 (57,970)
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A Comparison of CEO Pay-Performance Sensitivity in Privately-Held and Public Firms

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 30 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2015
Huasheng Gao and Kai Li
Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 740 (58,082)
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CEO pay; ownership concentration; pay-performance sensitivity; privately-held firms

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Determinants of Corporate Cash Policy: A Comparison of Public and Private Firms

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 11 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2012
Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University, University of Washington and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 739 (58,181)
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Cash Holdings, Cash-to-Cash Flow Sensitivity, Agency Conflicts, Financing Frictions, Private Firms

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Director Gender and Mergers and Acquisitions

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 May 2012 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2013
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
Downloads 729 (59,378)
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director gender, bid initiation, bid premium, mergers and acquisitions, overconfidence, risk aversion

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The Real Effect of Smoking Bans: Evidence from Corporate Innovation

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 13 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2020
Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University, National Tsing Hua University - Department of Quantitative Finance, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Monash University
Downloads 723 (59,900)
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Innovation, Smoking Bans, Patent, Patent Citation, Inventor Productivity, Inventor Relocation

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Corporate Boards and the Leverage and Debt Maturity Choices

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Mar 2006
University of Washington, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) - Risk Analysis Division
Downloads 715 (60,781)
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leverage, debt maturity, board effectiveness, incentive alignment, director power, governance

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CEO Turnover-Performance Sensitivities in Private Firms

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 11 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2015
Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University, University of Washington and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 695 (63,095)
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agency problems; CEO turnover; CEO turnover-performance sensitivity; investor horizon; investor myopia; private firms

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Technology Conglomeration, Strategic Alliances, and Corporate Innovation

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 16 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2018
Kai Li, Jiaping Qiu and Jin Wang
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, McMaster University - Michael G. DeGroote School of Business and Wilfrid Laurier University - Lazaridis School of Business & Economics
Downloads 662 (67,153)
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firm-to-economy technological proximity, technology conglomeration, innovation, synergy, strategic alliances, knowledge pooling, cross-fertilization, tolerance for failure

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Female Equity Analysts and Corporate Environmental and Social Performance

Number of pages: 94 Posted: 24 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2023
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology, Cardiff University - Cardiff Business School, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Rutgers University - Rutgers School of Business-Camden
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female equity analysts; analyst monitoring; corporate environmental and social performance; natural language processing; data-centric AI; FinBERT; analyst reports; earnings conference calls

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Debt Structure

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2020
Bocconi University - Department of Finance, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business SciencesBarcelona Graduate School of Economics and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 644 (69,593)
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capital structure; debt structure; debt specialization; maturity; priority; bank loans; corporate bonds; credit lines; commercial paper; capital leases; bankruptcy costs; creditor conflicts; coordination failure; information asymmetry; credit market access; types of assets

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National Culture and the Value Implications of Corporate Environmental and Social Performance

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 08 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2021
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Marketing, University of South Carolina - Moore School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Downloads 635 (70,847)
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individualism; national culture; environmental performance; social performance; firm value; internationalization; hierarchical linear model

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Inter-firm Inventor Collaboration and Path-breaking Innovation: Evidence from Inventor Teams Post-merger

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 10 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2021
Kai Li and Jin Wang
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Wilfrid Laurier University - Lazaridis School of Business & Economics
Downloads 602 (75,704)
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human capital synergies, mergers and acquisitions, inter-firm inventor collaboration, knowledge spillovers, radical innovation, impactful innovation, valuable innovation

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Innovation Strategy of Private Firms

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 12 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2017
Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University, National Tsing Hua University - Department of Quantitative Finance and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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innovation strategy; exploratory innovation; exploitative innovation; investment horizons; private firms; public firms

Conflicts of Interests Among Shareholders: The Case of Corporate Acquisitions

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4653-07, Rock Center for Corporate Governance Working Paper No. 35
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 01 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2009
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Washington and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Finance
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cross-holdings, shareholder heterogeneity, target selection, mergers and acquisitions, toeholds, synergies, agency

Conflicts of Interests Among Shareholders: The Case of Corporate Acquisitions

NBER Working Paper No. w13274
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2022
University of Washington, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Finance
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When Shareholders are Creditors: Effects of the Simultaneous Holding of Equity and Debt by Institutional Investors

EFA 2009 Bergen Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 14 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2011
Wei Jiang, Kai Li and Pei Shao
Emory University Goizueta Business School, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of Northern British Columbia
Downloads 582 (78,987)
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shareholder-debtholder conflicts, dual-holding, institutional investors, syndicated loans

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Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: Gender and Mergers and Acquisitions

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Mar 2011
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Do Voting Rights Affect Institutional Investment Decisions? Evidence from Dual-Class Firms

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2022
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) - Risk Analysis Division
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corporate governance, dual-class firms, institutional investors, ownership structure, unification, voting rights

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The Effects of a U.S. Approach to Enforcement: Evidence from China

Number of pages: 94 Posted: 31 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2022
IESEG School of Management, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and Simon Fraser University - Beedie School of Business
Downloads 561 (82,685)
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enforcement, disclosure, comment letter, capital-market effects, relational contracting, political incentive, textual analysis

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Decoupling CEO Wealth and Firm Performance: The Case of Acquiring CEOS

Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 17 Mar 2005
Kai Li and Jarrad Harford
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of Washington
Downloads 553 (84,213)
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acquisitions, capital expenditures, corporate governance, equity incentives, pay-performance sensitivity

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CEO Pay Cuts and Forced Turnover: Their Causes and Consequences

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2012
Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University, University of Washington and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 525 (89,783)
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CEO turnover, corporate governance, executive compensation, pay cuts, pay-for-performance sensitivity

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The Eco Gender Gap in Boardrooms

European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 861/2022
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 22 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2023
Po-Hsuan Hsu, Kai Li and Yihui Pan
National Tsing Hua University - Department of Quantitative Finance, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of Utah - Department of Finance
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female directors; boards; corporate environmental performance; pollution prevention; emissions; board gender quota

Privatization and Risk Sharing: Evidence from the Split Share Structure Reform in China

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 17 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2012
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Finance, The Education University of Hong Kong and School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics
Downloads 340 (147,460)
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bargaining power, compensation ratio, price impact, risk sharing, share issue privatization

Privatization and Risk Sharing: Evidence from the Split Share Structure Reform in China

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 May 2011
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Finance, The Education University of Hong Kong and School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics
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bargaining power, compensation ratio, price impact, risk sharing, share issue privatization

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Going Public and Innovation Strategy: The Role of Ownership Structure

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 30 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2020
INSEAD - Singapore, Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University, National Tsing Hua University - Department of Quantitative Finance and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Innovation strategy; exploration and exploitation; IPO; private versus public ownership; ownership structure

Bayesian Analysis of Duration Models: An Application to Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

University of British Columbia, Finance Working Paper No. 99-1, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 02 Mar 1999
Kai Li
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Bayesian Analysis of Duration Models: An Application to Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Economics Letters, 1999
Posted: 02 Mar 1999
Kai Li
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business

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Should Us Investors Hold Foreign Stocks?

Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Vol. 8, No. 3, March 2002, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 15 Sep 2004
Kai Li and Asani Sarkar
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Downloads 407 (121,566)

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International diversification, Short-sale constraints, Home bias, Asset allocation

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Asymmetric Information and Dividend Policy

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Feb 2007
Kai Li and Xinlei Shelly Zhao
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) - Risk Analysis Division
Downloads 390 (127,620)
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asymmetric information, dividend initiation, dividend increase, dividend payout, repurchase, information environment

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Deal or No Deal: Hormones and the Mergers and Acquisitions Game

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 22 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2010
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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mergers and acquisitions, male dominance seeking, CEO testosterone, bid initiation, bid withdrawal, tender offers

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How Does Culture Influence Corporate Risk-Taking?

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 05 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2015
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Marketing, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Singapore Management University - School of Accountancy and Peking University - Department of Finance
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harmony, individualism, national culture, risk-taking, uncertainty avoidance

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Consolidating Product Lines via Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from the USPTO Trademark Data

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 14 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 05 May 2021
National Tsing Hua University - Department of Quantitative Finance, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Fudan University - School of Economics
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trademarks; product lines; mergers and acquisitions; product market competition; cost efficiency

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Does Mandating Women on Corporate Boards Backfire?

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 05 May 2023 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2023
Bo Bian, Jingjing Li and Kai Li
University of British Columbia, University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Backlash, Board Gender Quotas, Job Postings, Female Employment, Board of Directors, Corporate Governance, Textual Analysis

The Growth in Equity Market Size and Trading Activity: An International Study

Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 29 Mar 2006
Kai Li
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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laws and institutions, value traded, turnover, stochastic frontier, Bayesian inference

The Growth in Equity Market Size and Trading Activity: An International Study

Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 14, pp. 59-90, 2007
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Feb 2007
Kai Li
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Laws and institutions, Value traded, Turnover, Stochastic frontier, Bayesian inference

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A Bayesian Analysis of a Variance Decomposition for Stock Returns

Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Nov 2002
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of Leicester - Department of Economics
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vector autoregression, priors, initial conditions, nonlinear functions

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Country of Origin Effects in Capital Structure Decisions: Evidence from Foreign Direct Investments in China

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 06 Mar 2009
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Marketing, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Singapore Management University - School of Accountancy and Peking University - Department of Finance
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country of origin, embeddedness, foreign direct investments, leverage, mastery, uncertainty avoidance

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Dissecting Corporate Culture Using Generative AI – Insights from Analyst Reports

Number of pages: 82 Posted: 01 Sep 2023
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen - School of Management and Economics, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Rutgers University - Rutgers School of Business-Camden
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corporate culture; equity analysts; analyst reports; large language models; generative AI; ChatGPT; causal relation extraction

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Gender, Competition, and Performance: International Evidence

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 13 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 17 May 2023
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Dayton - School of Business Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen - School of Management and Economics and Cardiff University - Cardiff Business School
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gender; competition; equity analysts; forecast error; individualism; international evidence

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National Culture and Capital Structure Decisions: Evidence from Foreign Joint Ventures in China

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Sep 2010
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Marketing, Singapore Management University - School of Accountancy and Peking University - Department of Finance
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Country of Origin, Cultural Values, Embeddedness, Foreign Direct Investments, Leverage, Mastery

Testing Symmetry and Proportionality in PPP: A Panel Data Approach

University of British Columbia Finance WP No. 97-11, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Feb 1999
Kai Li
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Testing Symmetry and Proportionality in PPP: A Panel Data Approach

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
Posted: 27 Feb 1999
Kai Li
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business

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Confidence in the Familiar: An International Perspective

Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Jun 2003
Kai Li
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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asset pricing models, Bayesian, country-specific risk, home bias, panel data

Confidence in the Familiar: An International Perspective

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Forthcoming
Posted: 12 Jun 2003
Kai Li
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business

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asset pricing models, Bayesian, country-specific risk, home bias, panel data

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Relationship between Maternal Behavior During Pregnancy, Birth Outcome, and Early Childhood Development: An Exploratory Study

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1030, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 May 2003
Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of California, Irvine
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endogeneity, birth weight, NLSY, prediction, simultaneous equations

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An Analysis of Own Account Trading by Dual Traders in Futures Markets: A Bayesian Approach

University of British Columbia, Finance Working Paper No. 99-9, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Mar 2000
Kai Li and Sugato Chakravarty
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Krannert School of Management
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Exchange Rate Target Zone Models: A Bayesian Evaluation

University of British Columbia, Finance Working Paper No. 97-8, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 27 Feb 1999
Kai Li
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Exchange Rate Target Zone Models: A Bayesian Evaluation

Journal of Applied Econometrics
Posted: 27 Feb 1999
Kai Li
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business

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Writing Equitable and Effective External Review Letters in Changing Times

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 21 Sep 2022
University of California, Davis, University of Delaware - Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, Harvard University, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, London Business School and Yale University - Yale School of Management
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faculty promotion, tenure, external reviewer

An Examination of Own Account Trading by Dual Traders in Futures Markets

Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Jul 2002
Kai Li and Sugato Chakravarty
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Krannert School of Management
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dual trading, front running, informed trader, inventory, liquidity

An Examination of Own Account Trading by Dual Traders in Futures Markets

Forthcoming in Journal of Financial Economics
Posted: 06 Aug 2002
Kai Li and Sugato Chakravarty
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Krannert School of Management

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dual trading, front running, informed trader, inventory, liquidity

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Are Women More Likely to Seek Advice than Men? Evidence from the Boardroom

Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Vol. 8, pp. 127-149, 2015, DOI: 10.3390/jrfm8010127
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2015
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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seeking advice; financial advisors; director gender; overconfidence; takeovers

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Is the Playing Field Really Level? Evidence from Bond-loan Dualholding

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 05 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2023
Kai Li, Luca X. Lin and Xinyan Yan
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and University of South Florida
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Bond-loan dualholders; information advantage, information spillover, loan spreads, loan amendments, informed trading

A Bayesian Analysis of Dual Trader Informativeness in Futures Markets

Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Aug 2002
Sugato Chakravarty and Kai Li
Krannert School of Management and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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endogeneity, heterogeneity, informed trader, Markov chain Monte Carlo, private information, simultaneous equations

A Bayesian Analysis of Dual Trader Informativeness in Futures Markets

Forthcoming in Journal of Empirical Finance
Posted: 27 Aug 2002
Kai Li and Sugato Chakravarty
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Krannert School of Management

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endogeneity, heterogeneity, informed trader, Markov chain Monte Carlo, private information, simultaneous equations

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The SEC’s Use of Voluntary Disclosure for the Oversight of Mandatory Disclosure

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 19 Jun 2023
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, Georgetown University - Department of Accounting and Business Law and Simon Fraser University - Beedie School of Business
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SEC, information asymmetry, voluntary disclosure, mandatory disclosure, comment letters, earnings conference calls, computational linguistic methods

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An Econometric Model of Birth Inputs and Outputs: A Detailed Report

UBCFIN00-3, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 26 Jun 2000
Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of California, Irvine
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Risk Homeostasis and Corporate Acquisitions

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2012
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Mergers and Acquisitions, Return Correlation, Risk Dynamics, Risk Homeostasis

An Econometric Model of Birth Inputs and Outputs for Native Americans

Univ. of British Columbia Working Paper No. FIN99-7, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Dec 1999
Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of California, Irvine
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Bayesian, Birth length, Birth weight, Drinking, Gestation, Prenatal care, Simultaneity, Smoking, Weight gain

An Econometric Model of Birth Inputs and Outputs for Native Americans

Journal of Econometrics, Forthcoming
Posted: 26 Aug 2002
Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of California, Irvine

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Bayesian, Birth length, Birth weight, Drinking, Gestation, Prenatal care, Simultaneity, Smoking, Weight gain

Bayesian Analysis of an Econometric Model of Birth Inputs and Outputs

Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Nov 2002
Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of California, Irvine
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Birth weight, NLSY, simultaneity

Bayesian Analysis of an Econometric Model of Birth Inputs and Outputs

Journal of Population Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 13 Nov 2002
Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of California, Irvine

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Birth weight, NLSY, simultaneity

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The Roles of Birth Inputs and Outputs in Predicting Health, Behavior, and Test Scores in Early Childhood

Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Jul 2003
Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of California, Irvine
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early childhood development, birth weight, maternal behavior during pregnancy, endogeneity, NLSY, Bayesian

Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the Us to Study the Birth Process: A Bayesian Approach

U of British Columbia Working Paper No. UBCFIN01-1, Sauder School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Jul 2001
Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of California, Irvine
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birth length, birth weight, drinking, gestation, NLSY, prenatal care, simultaneity, smoking, weight gain

Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the Us to Study the Birth Process: A Bayesian Approach

Forthcoming in Research in Official Statistics
Posted: 14 Aug 2001
Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of California, Irvine

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birth length, birth weight, drinking, gestation, NLSY, prenatal care, simultaneity, smoking, weight gain

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Debt Structure

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 12, pp. 193-215, 2020
Posted: 10 Dec 2020
Bocconi University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business SciencesBarcelona Graduate School of Economics and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business

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An Econometric Analysis of the Birth Process by Racial/Ethnic Groups

BAYESIAN METHODS WITH APPLICATIONS TO SCIENCE, POLICY, AND OFFICIAL STATISTICS, Selected Papers from ISBA 2000: The Sixth World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Forthcoming
Posted: 21 Jun 2001
Kai Li and Dale J. Poirier
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of California, Irvine

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alcohol, Bayesian, birth length, birth weight, gestation, NLSY, prenatal care, simultaneity, smoking, weight gain

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Bayesian Inference in a Simultaneous Equation Model with Limited Dependent Variables

Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 85, No. 2, 1998
Posted: 24 Aug 1998
Kai Li
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business

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