C. N. V. Krishnan

Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance

Professor of Banking and Finance, Henry Payne McIntosh Fellow

11119 Bellflower Rd

PBL 363

Cleveland, OH 44106-7235

United States

http://weatherhead.case.edu/faculty/c-n-v-krishnan

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“  Law and Finance; Merger and Acquisitions; Activism; Venture Capital; Empirical Corporate Finance, CSR, ESG, Financial Accounting, Econometric Methods.  ”

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Venture Capital Reputation, Post-IPO Performance and Corporate Governance

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 265/2009
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 22 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2011
C. N. V. Krishnan, Vladimir I. Ivanov, Ronald W. Masulis and Ajai K. Singh
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, US Securities & Exchange Commission, University of New South Wales, Sydney and Department of Finance, University of Central Florida
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Venture capital, Reputation, Initial Public Offerings, Post-IPO long-run performance, Post-IPO VC shareholdings and directorships, Corporate governance

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Shareholder Litigation in Mergers and Acquisitions

18 Journal of Corporate Finance 1248 (2012), AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper, 6th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Northwestern Univ Law School 2011, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-23, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-37
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 09 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 05 May 2017
C. N. V. Krishnan, Ronald W. Masulis, Randall S. Thomas, Randall S. Thomas and Robert B. Thompson
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management and Georgetown University Law Center
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M&A Offers, Announcement Period Return, Deal completion rates, Takeover premium, Delaware lawsuits, Federal lawsuits, Controlling Shareholder Squeeze-outs, Shareholder Class Action Lawsuits, Law firm reputation, Investment bank reputation, Selection bias control, Price Revision

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The Second Wave of Hedge Fund Activism: The Importance of Reputation, Clout, and Expertise.

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 15-9, Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 40, No. 296-314, 2016
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2016
C. N. V. Krishnan, Frank Partnoy, Randall S. Thomas and Randall S. Thomas
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management
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Hedge funds, Shareholder Activism, Hedge fund reputation, Hedge fund investments, Proxy fights, Lawsuits, Post-intervention performance, Selection bias control, Hedge fund Capital under management, Hedge fund number of Portfolio Companies, Hedge fund Board Seats, Anti-takeover Provisions

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Who Are the Top Law Firms? Assessing the Value of Plaintiffs’ Law Firms in Merger Litigation

18 American Law and Economics Review 88 (2016), European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 265/2014, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 14-25
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2017
C. N. V. Krishnan, Steven Davidoff Solomon, Randall S. Thomas and Randall S. Thomas
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management
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Shareholder class action lawsuits, mergers and acquisitions, M&A transactions, top plaintiffs’ law firms, law firm reputation, lawsuit activity, law suit success, law firm popularity, selection bias controls, Docket entries, Injunction Motion, Motion to Expedite, Motion for Dismiss, Delaware Court

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Law Firm Expertise and Mergers and Acquisitions

Journal of Law and Economics, Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 316/2011
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 10 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2012
C. N. V. Krishnan and Ronald W. Masulis
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and University of New South Wales, Sydney
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M&A legal advisor, Law firms, market shares, incentives, top 10 law firms, M&A, mergers, acquisitions, market shares, league table ranks, deal completion, takeover premium, selection bias

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Predicting Credit Spreads

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 26 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2008
Peter H. Ritchken, C. N. V. Krishnan and James B. Thomson
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and University of Akron
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Term Structure of Credit Spreads, Level, Slope, and Curvature of Credit Spreads, Forecasting Future Credit Spreads, Out of sample Predictions, Macro Variables, Firm Risk Variables

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Venture Capital Reputation: A Survey

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF VENTURE CAPITAL, Douglas J. Cummings, ed., Oxford University Press, 2011
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 26 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2011
C. N. V. Krishnan and Ronald W. Masulis
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and University of New South Wales, Sydney
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Venture capital firms, Reputation, Alternative Reputation measures, Portfolio company performance, Initial Public Offerings, Acquisitions, Post-IPO performance, Corporate governance

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The Relationship between Dividend Payout and Price to Earnings

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 10 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2019
C. N. V. Krishnan and Yifei Chen
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance
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Price-to-Earnings ratio, PE ratio, dividend payout ratio, industry, market cap, firm size, book-to-market ratio, growth opportunities, firm risk

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Correlation Risk

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2008
C. N. V. Krishnan, Ralitsa Petkova and Peter H. Ritchken
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance
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Asset Pricing, Correlation, Time-varying Correlation, Price of Correlation Risk

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Monitoring and Controlling Bank Risk: Does Risky Debt Help?

AFA 2004 San Diego Meetings; FRB of Cleveland Working Paper No. 0301
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Mar 2004
C. N. V. Krishnan, Peter H. Ritchken and James B. Thomson
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and University of Akron
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Bank risk, Estimation of credit spread Curves, Determinants of credit spread changes

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Optimal Wage Contracts Under Asymmetric Information and Moral Hazard When Investment Decisions are Delegated

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Mar 2004
C. N. V. Krishnan
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance
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Delegated Portfolio decisions, Optimal Wage Contract

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How do Legal Standards Matter? An Empirical Study of Special Litigation Committees

Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 17-56, Forthcoming, Journal of Corporate Finance
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2019
C. N. V. Krishnan, Steven Davidoff Solomon, Randall S. Thomas and Randall S. Thomas
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management
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SLC, Special Litigation Committee, Lawsuits, Case Dismissal, Case Settlements, High Value Settlements, Delaware courts, Legal Standards, SLC Reports, SLC Report recommending dismissal

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Estimating the Determinants of Stock Price Changes

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 28 Mar 2004 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2007
C. N. V. Krishnan
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance
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Stock price change determinants, Bid-ask spread

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Analyzing the Time-Varying Stock Market Risk-Return Relation

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2011
C. N. V. Krishnan and Ralitsa Petkova
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance
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Stock Market Risk-Return Relation, Stock and bond portfolios, Market price of risk, Conditional stock-market variance, Risk component of expected market return

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The Impact on Shareholder Value of Top Defense Counsel in Mergers and Acquisitions Litigation

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2773594
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 03 May 2016 Last Revised: 25 May 2017
C. N. V. Krishnan, Steven Davidoff Solomon, Randall S. Thomas and Randall S. Thomas
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management
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M&A litigation, Shareholder class action lawsuits, Top defense litigation counsel, Multijurisdictional litigation, Takeover premium, Disclosure settlements, Consideration settlements, Lawsuit activity, Endogeneity controls

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Legal Advisors: Popularity Versus Economic Performance in Acquisitions

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Mar 2004
C. N. V. Krishnan and Paul A. Laux
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and University of Delaware - Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics
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Law firms, Market-share, Deal completion, Long-run returns

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Investment Proximity and Venture Capital Returns

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2020
C. N. V. Krishnan and Daniel Nguyen
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and Case Western Reserve University
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VC Investments, Returns, Cumulative Returns, Annualized Returns, Geographical Proximity, Distance, Cross-State Investments, VC Directors, VC Hub, VC favored Industries, Matched-Sample analysis, Selection bias control.

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IPO Performance: A Cross-Country Comparison of the effect of Regulations

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 26 Apr 2021
C. N. V. Krishnan and Yu He
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Initial Public Offerings, US IPOs, China IPOs, Regulations, Abnormal Returns, Post Issue Performance, Post Issue Returns

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Examining Bank SEOs: Are Offers Made by Undercapitalized Banks Different?

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 12 Feb 2009
O. Emre Ergungor, C. N. V. Krishnan, Paul A. Laux, Ajai K. Singh and Allan A. Zebedee
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, University of Delaware - Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, Department of Finance, University of Central Florida and Clarkson University
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Bank Seasoned Equity Offers, Undercapitalization, Overcapitalization, Involuntary Issues, Voluntary Issues, Market Reaction, Long run performance, Long-run returns

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Jurisdictional Effects in M&A Litigation

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Forthcoming, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 13-14
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 12 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2013
C. N. V. Krishnan, Ronald W. Masulis, Randall S. Thomas, Randall S. Thomas and Robert B. Thompson
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management and Georgetown University Law Center
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M&A Offers, Lawsuits, Delaware Suits, Federal Suits, Other State Suits, Multi-Jurisdiction Suits, Deal completion rate, Takeover premium, Controlling Shareholder Squeeze-outs, Lawsuit Settlements, Consideration Paid, Selection Bias Control

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Do Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Factors Matter? Analyzing the Relationships between Firm Characteristics and ESG Scores.

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 05 Sep 2024 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2024
C. N. V. Krishnan, Jiemin Yang and Xiyao Tan
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, Case Western Reserve University and Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management
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ESG, Environmental, Social, Governance, Market capitalization, Book-to-Market ratio, Profitability, ESG Strengths, ESG Concerns

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Market Misreaction? Leverage and Mergers and Acquisitions

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2022
C. N. V. Krishnan and Vasiliy Yakimenko
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and University of Georgia
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Mergers and Acquisitions, M&A, Acquirer Leverage, Capital Ratio, Equity Ratio, Bank M&As, Non-bank M&As, Announcement Period Returns, Post-announcement Returns, Post M&A Performance

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Market Misreaction? Evidence from Cross-border Acquisitions.

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2022
C. N. V. Krishnan and Jialun Wu
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Mergers and Acquisitions, Cross-Border M&A, Merger Efficiency, Operating Efficiency, Abnormal Returns, Bootstrap-DEA, Difference-in-Difference Analysis, Misreaction

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Venture Capital Reputation: A Note

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 04 Aug 2015
C. N. V. Krishnan
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance
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Venture Capital Reputation, Reputation, VC Reputation

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The Methodology Matters: What Influences Market Reaction, and Post-issue Returns in Seasoned Equity Offerings?

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2022
C. N. V. Krishnan and Minghao Wu
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and Emory University, Goizueta Business School, Students
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Seasoned Equity Offerings; SEO; announcement period abnormal stock returns; long run post-issue abnormal returns; principal components analysis; random forest regression; key determinants.

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Explaining Changing “Investor Exuberance"

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 23 Sep 2024 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2024
C. N. V. Krishnan, Jiemin Yang and Xiyao Tan
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, Case Western Reserve University and Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management
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TR CAPE, Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-Earnings ratio, investor exuberance, PCA, Principal Components Analysis, Lasso regression, Ridge regression, determinants, stock market variables, economy-wide variables, fixed income variables, commodity variables

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Investor Perception, Market Reaction, and Post‐issue Performance in Bank Seasoned Equity Offerings.

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 29 Jun 2022
C. N. V. Krishnan and Yu He
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Seasoned equity offering, SEO, capital ratio, nonperforming assets ratio, announcement period abnormal returns, post‐issue bank performance, investor perceptions

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Firm Features

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 17 Jan 2025
C. N. V. Krishnan and Xiyao Tan
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), CSR energy and water score, CSR ethics, customer service, and labor score, CSR governance score, firm features, Market Value of Equity (MVE), Return on Assets (ROA), Book-to-Market ratio (BTM), CSR investments, Return on Assets, Book to Market Ratio, CSR, CSR investments

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Law Firm Expertise and Merger and Acquisition Outcomes

Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 56, 2013
Posted: 23 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2012
C. N. V. Krishnan and Ronald W. Masulis
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and University of New South Wales, Sydney

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M&A legal advisor, Law firms, market shares, incentives, top 10 law firms, M&A, mergers, acquisitions, market shares, league table ranks, deal completion, takeover premium, selection bias control

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Can Inefficient Traders Create Value?

Posted: 28 Feb 2004
C. N. V. Krishnan
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance

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informed traders, noise traders

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An Examination of Large Sell Orders in Cold IPO Aftermarkets

Posted: 23 Jun 2003
C. N. V. Krishnan, Ajai K. Singh and Allan A. Zebedee
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, Department of Finance, University of Central Florida and Clarkson University

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The Price of Bond Market-Stock Market Correlation Risk

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 24 Mar 2005
C. N. V. Krishnan, Ralitsa Petkova and Peter H. Ritchken
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance and Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance
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Bond Market-Stock Market Correlation, Price of Correlation Risk

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Zealous Advocates or Self-Interested Actors? Assessing the Value of Plaintiffs' Law Firms in Merger Litigation

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Jul 2014
C. N. V. Krishnan, Steven Davidoff Solomon, Randall S. Thomas and Randall S. Thomas
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management
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