Alan D. Crane

Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

Associate Professor

6100 South Main Street

P.O. Box 1892

Houston, TX 77005-1892

United States

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1.

Hedge Funds and Public Information Acquisition

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 16 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2021
Alan D. Crane, Kevin Crotty and Tarik Umar
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Information Acquisition, Public Information, Hedge Funds

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Passive versus Active Fund Performance: Do Index Funds Have Skill?

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 18 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2017
Alan D. Crane and Kevin Crotty
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Index Funds, Mutual Fund Performance, Skill

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The Effect of Institutional Ownership on Payout Policy: Evidence from Index Thresholds

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 09 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 14 May 2014
Alan D. Crane, Sebastien Michenaud and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Payout, Institutional Investors, Dividends, Share Repurchases, Regression Discontinuity Design

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Is There a Disposition Effect in Corporate Investment Decisions? Evidence from Real Estate Investment Trusts

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2010
Alan D. Crane and Jay C. Hartzell
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance
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Disposition effect, Behavioral corporate finance, REITs

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How Skilled Are Security Analysts?

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 27 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2019
Alan D. Crane and Kevin Crotty
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Stock recommendations, Security Analysts, Skill, Luck

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Institutional Investor Cliques and Governance

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 22 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2017
Alan D. Crane, Andrew Koch and Sebastien Michenaud
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh - Finance Group and Kellstadt Graduate School of Business
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Institutional Investors, Governance, Coordination

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Shareholder Litigation and Ownership Structure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 21 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2016
Alan D. Crane and Andrew Koch
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and University of Pittsburgh - Finance Group
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Litigation; Shareholder Coordination; Ownership Structure; Governance; Institutional Ownership; Securities Class Action

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Skewness Consequences of Seeking Alpha

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 13 May 2017
Kerry Back, Alan D. Crane and Kevin Crotty
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Performance evaluation, coskewness, skewness, mutual fund

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Real Effects of Markets on Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Elections

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2021
Alan D. Crane, Andrew Koch and Leming Lin
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh - Finance Group and University of Pittsburgh - Katz Graduate School of Business
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stock market participation, stock returns, elections, voting, real effects

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The Litigation Environment of a Firm and its Impact on Financial Policy

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 05 May 2011
Alan D. Crane
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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capital structure, litigation, fianncial policy

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Errors in Shareholder Voting

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 25 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2023
Patrick Blonien, Alan D. Crane, Kevin Crotty and David De Angelis
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business
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shareholder voting, shareholder proposals, proxy advice, informed voting

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The Causal Effects of Short-Selling Bans: Evidence from Eligibility Thresholds

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
Alan D. Crane, Kevin Crotty, Sebastien Michenaud and Patricia L. Naranjo
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business and Rice University
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Short Selling, Regression Discontinuity, Financial Market Regulation

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Choosing the Precision of Performance Metrics

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2017
Alan D. Crane, Andrew Koch and Chishen Wei
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh - Finance Group and Hong Kong Polytechnic University - School of Accounting and Finance
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Compensation, performance benchmarks, stock splits

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Project Development with Delegated Bargaining: The Role of Elevated Hurdle Rates

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 19 Apr 2023
John W. Barry, Bruce Carlin, Alan D. Crane and John R. Graham
Duke University, Rice University, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Duke University
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hurdle rates, cost of capital, buffers, capital budgeting, bargaining, project development, project selection, corporate investment

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The Value of Social Status

NBER Working Paper No. w27979
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2023
Alexander W. Butler, Bruce Carlin, Alan D. Crane, James Weston and Boyang Liu
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Novartis Corporation
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How Prevalent is Informed Trade by Corporate Insiders?

Posted: 30 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2023
Patrick Blonien, Alan D. Crane and Kevin Crotty
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Insider trading, Informed trade, Mixture model