Henk Berkman

University of Auckland - Business School

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1.

Political Connections and Minority-Shareholder Protection: Evidence from Securities-Market Regulation in China

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Vol. 45, No. 6, pp.1391-1417, 2010, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2011
Henk Berkman, Rebel A. Cole and Jiang Lawrence Fu
University of Auckland - Business School, Florida Atlantic University and Standard Charter Bank
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China, corporate governance, enforcement, expropriation, political connections, investor

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Paying Attention: Overnight Returns and the Hidden Cost of Buying at the Open

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 16 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2011
Henk Berkman, Paul D. Koch, Laura A. Tuttle and Ying Zhang
University of Auckland - Business School, Iowa State University - Finance Department, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Division of Economic and Risk Analysis and Missouri State University - College of Business Administration
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market efficiency, attention, sentiment, retail investors, transaction costs, short sale

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War, Peace and Stock Markets

EFA 2006 Zurich Meetings
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Oct 2005
Henk Berkman and Ben Jacobsen
University of Auckland - Business School and Tilburg University - TIAS School for Business and Society
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War, Peace, Volatility Puzzle, Stock Returns, International Crises

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Improving Corporate Governance Where the State is the Controlling Block Holder: Evidence from China

European Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 06 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 28 May 2012
Henk Berkman, Rebel A. Cole and Jiang Lawrence Fu
University of Auckland - Business School, Florida Atlantic University and Standard Charter Bank
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block-holder identity, China, partial corporate control, partial privatization, privatization, State ownership, SOE

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Agency Conflicts, Expropriation and Firm Value: Evidence from Securities-Market Regulation in China

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2014
Henk Berkman, Rebel A. Cole and Jiang Lawrence Fu
University of Auckland - Business School, Florida Atlantic University and Standard Charter Bank
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agency costs, bright lines, China, convergence, corporate governance, enforcement, expropriation, independent director, investor protection, minority shareholder, regulation, tunneling

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DRIPs and the Dividend Pay Date Effect

Forthcoming, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), 2016
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 07 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2015
Henk Berkman and Paul D. Koch
University of Auckland - Business School and Iowa State University - Finance Department
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market efficiency, dividend, anomaly, dividend reinvestment plan, retail investors, sentiment, transaction costs, short sales, institutional ownership

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Time-Varying Rare Disaster Risk and Stock Returns

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 18 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2010
Henk Berkman, Ben Jacobsen and John B. Lee
University of Auckland - Business School, Tilburg University - TIAS School for Business and Society and University of Auckland
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Equity Premium, Volatility, Rare Disasters, International Political Crises, Consumption

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Event Day 0? After-Hours Earnings Announcements

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 23 Jun 2005
Henk Berkman and Cameron Truong
University of Auckland - Business School and Monash University
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Event studies, earnings announcements, Compustat

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Expropriation Through Loan Guarantees to Related Parties: Evidence from China

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Expropriation Through Loan Guarantees to Related Parties: Evidence from China

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Apr 2007
Rebel A. Cole, Henk Berkman and Jiang Lawrence Fu
Florida Atlantic University, University of Auckland - Business School and Standard Charter Bank
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block holder, China, expropriation, minority shareholder, Tobin's Q, tunneling

Expropriation Through Loan Guarantees to Related Parties: Evidence from China

Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2009
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 24 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2010
Henk Berkman, Rebel A. Cole and Jiang Lawrence Fu
University of Auckland - Business School, Florida Atlantic University and Standard Charter Bank
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Block holder, China, connected party transaction, corporate governance, expropriation, related party transaction, Tobin's Q, tunneling

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Firm-Specific Climate Risk and Market Valuation

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 05 May 2016 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2019
Henk Berkman, Jonathan Jona and Naomi S. Soderstrom
University of Auckland - Business School, Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Finance & Economics, Students and University of Melbourne
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Climate Risk, Market Valuation, Event Study, textual analysis, disclosure.

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Informed Trading Through the Accounts of Children

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 07 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2013
Henk Berkman, Paul D. Koch and P. Joakim Westerholm
University of Auckland - Business School, Iowa State University - Finance Department and University of Sydney Business School
Downloads 465 (66,901)
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Individual investors, informed trading, insider trading, information asymmetry, market efficiency, PIN

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Hole in the Wall: Informed Short Selling Ahead of Private Placements

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 16 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2014
Henk Berkman, Michael D. McKenzie and Patrick Verwijmeren
University of Auckland - Business School, The University of Sydney - Discipline of Finance and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)
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Insider trading, Hedge funds, Private placements, Wall-crossing, Short-selling

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Inside the Director Network: When Directors Trade Inside, Interlock, and Unconnected Stocks

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 14 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2017
Henk Berkman, Paul D. Koch and P. Joakim Westerholm
University of Auckland - Business School, Iowa State University - Finance Department and University of Sydney Business School
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Informed trading, insider trading, information asymmetry, market efficiency, interlocking board, corporate director network, family network, social network analysis

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Overpricing: Evidence from Earnings Announcements

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 04 Aug 2006
Henk Berkman and Paul D. Koch
University of Auckland - Business School and Iowa State University - Finance Department
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market efficiency, short-sale restrictions, overpricing, earnings announcements, institutional ownership

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Analyst Recommendations and International Stock Market Returns

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Jul 2016
Henk Berkman and Wanyi Yang
University of Auckland - Business School and University of Auckland - Business School
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Analyst Recommendation, International Asset Allocation, Aggregate Information, Stock Return Prediction

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From State to State: Improving Corporate Governance Where the Government is the Controlling Block Holder

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Aug 2007
Rebel A. Cole, Henk Berkman and Jiang Lawrence Fu
Florida Atlantic University, University of Auckland - Business School and Standard Charter Bank
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annual meeting, block holder, board of directors, cash-flow rights, control rights, corporate governance, incentive compensation, politics and finance, privatization, State ownership, State-owned enterprise, ultimate shareholder

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Short Sale Constraints, Dispersion of Opinions, and Overnight Returns

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 22 Jun 2007
Henk Berkman, Paul D. Koch, Laura A. Tuttle and Jenny Zhang
University of Auckland - Business School, Iowa State University - Finance Department, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Division of Economic and Risk Analysis and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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market efficiency, limits to arbitrage, short sale restrictions, institutional ownership, dispersion of opinions, overpricing

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Earnings Announcements: Good News for Institutional Investors and Short Sellers

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Earnings Announcements: Good News for Institutional Investors and Short Sellers

Finance and Corporate Governance Conference 2010 Paper
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 11 Jan 2010
Henk Berkman and Michael D. McKenzie
University of Auckland - Business School and The University of Sydney - Discipline of Finance
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Informed Traders, Institutional Ownership, Short Selling, Earnings Announcements, Post Earnings Announcement Drift, PEAD

Earnings Announcements: Good News for Institutional Investors and Short Sellers

Financial Review, Vol. 47, Issue 1, pp. 91-113, 2012
Posted: 05 Jan 2012
Henk Berkman and Michael D. McKenzie
University of Auckland - Business School and The University of Sydney - Discipline of Finance
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G14, informed traders, institutional ownership, short selling, earnings announcements, post‐earnings announcement drift

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The Trading Behaviour of Institutional Owners and Short Sellers Around Earnings Announcements

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 18 Jun 2009
Henk Berkman and Michael D. McKenzie
University of Auckland - Business School and The University of Sydney - Discipline of Finance
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Informed Traders, Institutional Ownership, Short Selling, Earnings Announcements

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Digital Insiders and Informed Trading Before Earnings Announcements

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 30 May 2018 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2019
Henk Berkman, Jonathan Jona, Gladys Lee and Naomi S. Soderstrom
University of Auckland - Business School, Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Finance & Economics, Students, University of Melbourne and University of Melbourne
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cost of liquidity, cybersecurity, cyber risk disclosure, hacker, adverse selection, bid ask spread, price impact, Amihud ratio, insider trading, probability of informed trading, private information, adverse selection

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Disagreement, Short Sale Constraints, and Speculative Trading Before Earnings Announcements

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 10 Aug 2008
Henk Berkman and Paul D. Koch
University of Auckland - Business School and Iowa State University - Finance Department
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market efficiency, speculation, disagreement, dispersion of opinions, limits to arbitrage, institutional ownership, short sale restrictions, overpricing, earnings announcements

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Dispersion of Opinions, Limits to Arbitrage, and Overnight Returns

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 10 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2009
Henk Berkman, Paul D. Koch, Laura A. Tuttle and Ying Zhang
University of Auckland - Business School, Iowa State University - Finance Department, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Division of Economic and Risk Analysis and Missouri State University - College of Business Administration
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market efficiency, limits to arbitrage, short sale restrictions, institutional ownership, transaction costs, dispersion of opinions, disagreement, overpricing

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Personal Trading by Brokers, Analysts, and Fund Managers

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 08 Nov 2018
Henk Berkman, Paul Koch and P. Joakim Westerholm
University of Auckland - Business School, Iowa State University and University of Sydney Business School
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informed trading, information asymmetry, leakage, front running, tipping, insider trades, block trades, social networks, broker, analyst, fund manager, institutional investor

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Insiders’ Profits in the Australian Equities Market

CIFR Paper No. 108/2016
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 03 May 2016
Henk Berkman, Reza Bradrania, Tina Viljoen and P. Joakim Westerholm
University of Auckland - Business School, University of South Australia - UniSA Business School, University of Sydney Business School and University of Sydney Business School
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Insider Trading, CAAR

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Cybersecurity Awareness and Market Valuations

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 37, 2018
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 30 May 2018 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2019
Henk Berkman, Jonathan Jona, Gladys Lee and Naomi S. Soderstrom
University of Auckland - Business School, Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Finance & Economics, Students, University of Melbourne and University of Melbourne
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Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity awareness; Cyber breaches; Cyber risks; IT governance; Market valuations; Intangible assets

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Firm Value and Government Commitment to Combating Climate Change

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Vol. 53, 2019
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Jul 2019
Henk Berkman, Jonathan Jona and Naomi S. Soderstrom
University of Auckland - Business School, Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Finance & Economics, Students and University of Melbourne
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Climate Risk, Market Valuation, Government, President Trump, Event study, Climate change, Paris Agreement on Climate Change, Cost of Regulation

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Domestic Liquidity Costs and Cross-Listing in the US

21st Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2008 Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2010
Nhut (Nick) Hoang Nguyen and Henk Berkman
Auckland University of Technology and University of Auckland - Business School
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Cross-listing, Bid-ask spreads, Price impact, Investor Protection

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Derivative Financial Instrument Use in Australia

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 Dec 2002
Henk Berkman, Michael E. Bradbury, Phil Hancock and Clare Innes
University of Auckland - Business School, Massey University, University of Western Australia and Murdoch University
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Trust and the Value of CSR during the Global Financial Crisis

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2020
Henk Berkman, Michelle Li and Helen Lu
University of Auckland - Business School, University of Auckland and University of Auckland - Department of Accounting and Finance
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Corporate Social Responsibility, Event Study, Replication, Validity Test, Japan

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Market Microstructure: A Review from Down Under

Accounting & Finance, Vol. 51, Issue 1, pp. 50-78, 2011
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 Mar 2011
Henk Berkman and Carole Comerton-Forde
University of Auckland - Business School and UNSW Business School
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Market microstructure, Transaction costs, Liquidity, Market design, Bidask spread

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Rare Disaster Risk and the Expected Equity Risk Premium

Accounting & Finance, Vol. 57, Issue 2, pp. 351-372, 2017
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Jun 2017
Henk Berkman, Ben Jacobsen and John B. Lee
University of Auckland - Business School, Tilburg University - TIAS School for Business and Society and University of Auckland
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Consumption risk, Equity premium, International political crises, Market risk premium, Rare disasters

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The Influence of Ownership Structure on Risk Management: Evidence from New Zealand State Owned Enterprises

Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting, Vol. 9, Issue 2, pp. 117-131, 1998
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 15 Apr 2014
Henk Berkman and Michael E. Bradbury
University of Auckland - Business School and Massey University
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The Accuracy of Price-Earnings and Discounted Cash Flow Methods of IPO Equity Valuation

Posted: 16 Aug 2000
Michael E. Bradbury, Jason Ferguson and Henk Berkman
Massey University, University of Auckland - Business School and University of Auckland - Business School

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Trading Systems and Liquidity on Securities Markets: A Study of the European Options Exchange

Posted: 03 May 2000
Henk Berkman
University of Auckland - Business School

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Large Option Trades, Market Makers and Limit Orders

REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES, Vol. 9 No. 3
Posted: 20 Dec 1998
Henk Berkman
University of Auckland - Business School

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The Value of Free Content on Social Media: Evidence from Equity Research Platforms

Number of pages: 7
Tianyou Hu, Arvind Tripathi and Henk Berkman
University of Auckland - Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, University of Auckland - Department of Information Systems and Operations Management and University of Auckland - Business School
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Social Media, Stock Returns, Market Cap