Joshua T. White

Vanderbilt University - Finance

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1.

The Saliency of the CEO Pay Ratio

Review of Finance, forthcoming.
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 11 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2023
Audra L. Boone, Austin Starkweather and Joshua T. White
Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Haslam College of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance
Downloads 2,020 (17,450)
Citation 24

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Pay ratio, human capital disclosure, salient information, employee pay, ESG

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The Effect of Institutional Ownership on Firm Transparency and Information Production

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 22 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2015
Audra L. Boone and Joshua T. White
Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance
Downloads 1,894 (19,357)
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Institutional investors, Indexing, Voluntary disclosure, Earnings forecasts, Information asymmetry

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Human Capital Disclosure and Workforce Turnover

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Research Paper
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2022
Peter H. Haslag, Berk A. Sensoy and Joshua T. White
Vanderbilt University - Finance, Vanderbilt University - Finance and Vanderbilt University - Finance
Downloads 1,369 (31,627)
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Human capital, employee turnover, competition, SEC disclosure regulation, textual analysis

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The Role of the Media in Speculative Markets: Evidence from Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 07 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 25 May 2022
Joshua T. White, Sean Wilkoff and Serhat Yildiz
Vanderbilt University - Finance, University of Nevada, Reno and University of Nevada, Reno
Downloads 1,155 (40,727)
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News, Non-Fungible Tokens, Digital Assets, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Ethereum

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Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Shareholder Engagement

Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 819/2022, Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Research Paper Series No. 21-137
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 02 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2024
Aiyesha Dey, Austin Starkweather and Joshua T. White
Harvard Business School, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Haslam College of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance
Downloads 1,012 (49,058)
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Proxy advisors, ISS, shareholder engagement, executive compensation, Say-On-Pay. JEL Classification Number: D72, D82, G34, G38, M12

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Local Policy Uncertainty and Firm Disclosure

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Research Paper
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 17 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2021
Audra L. Boone, Abby Kim and Joshua T. White
Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Political Uncertainty, Information Environment, Information Asymmetry, Voluntary Disclosure, Mandatory Disclosure

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The Effect of Celebrity Endorsements on Crypto

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 10 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2025
Joshua T. White and Sean Wilkoff
Vanderbilt University - Finance and University of Nevada, Reno
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Celebrities, Promotions, Endorsements, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Initial Coin Offerings, Digital Assets, Capital Formation, Price Discovery

8.

Labor Mobility and Antitakeover Provisions

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming, Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Paper No. 19-102, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Research Paper No. 3161661, Finance Down Under 2019 Building on the Best from the Cellars of Finance
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 24 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2021
Aiyesha Dey and Joshua T. White
Harvard Business School and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Corporate governance, antitakeover provisions, labor mobility, implicit contracting, employee bonding, stakeholders

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Differences in the Information Environment Prior to Seasoned Equity Offerings under Relaxed Disclosure Regulation

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 18 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2014
Sarah B. Clinton, Joshua T. White and Tracie Woidtke
University of Tennessee, Knoxville - College of Business Administration, Vanderbilt University - Finance and University of Tennessee, Haslam College of Business
Downloads 459 (136,692)
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Securities Offering Reform, Securities regulation, Seasoned equity offerings, Disclosure, Information environment, Shelf registration

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Deregulating Innovation Capital: The Effects of the JOBS Act on Biotech Startups

Review of Corporate Finance Studies, forthcoming
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 15 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2022
Craig M. Lewis and Joshua T. White
Vanderbilt University - Finance and Vanderbilt University - Finance
Downloads 443 (142,556)
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Innovation, drug development, R&D, initial public offerings, SEC

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Market-Based Incentives for Optimal Audit Quality

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2024
Andrew Acito, Amir Amel-Zadeh, James Anderson, William L. Anderson, Daniel Aobdia, Francois Brochet, Huaizhi Chen, Jonathan Fluharty-Jaidee, Martin C. Schmalz, Martin C. Schmalz, Manyun Tang, Scott J. Wang, Joshua T. White, Thomas Bourveau and William R. Zame
Virginia Tech - Department of Accounting and Information Systems, University of Oxford - Said Business School, Saginaw Valley State University - College of Business and Management, Independent, Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, Boston University - Questrom School of Business, University of Notre Dame - Department of Finance, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, CEPRUniversity of Oxford - Finance, University of Oxford - Said Business School, Pennsylvania State University - Penn State, Vanderbilt University - Finance, Columbia University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics
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Audit Quality, Audit Regulation, Event Study, Abnormal Returns, Inspection Report JEL Classification: M41, M42, M48, G18, G14

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Outcomes of Investing in OTC Stocks

U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission DERA White Paper, 2016
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Dec 2016
Joshua T. White
Vanderbilt University - Finance
Downloads 393 (163,485)
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Over-The-Counter, OTC, Microcap, Penny Stocks, Stock Promotions, Disclosure, Transparency, Behavioral Finance

13.

Appointments of Academic Directors

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 11 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2013
Joshua T. White, Tracie Woidtke, Harold A. Black and Robert L. Schweitzer
Vanderbilt University - Finance, University of Tennessee, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Finance and University of Delaware
Downloads 348 (187,088)
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Corporate boards; Director selection; Academic directors; Director characteristics; Heterogeneity

14.

Qualified Residential Mortgages and Default Risk

Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 16 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2016
Ioannis V. Floros and Joshua T. White
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Department of Finance and Vanderbilt University - Finance
Downloads 264 (250,738)

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Qualifi ed Residential Mortgage, Qualified Mortgage, QRM, QM, Risk retention, Mortgage default risk, Dodd-Frank, Residential mortgage-backed securities

15.

The Evolving Role of Economic Analysis in SEC Rulemaking

Georgia Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2015
Joshua T. White
Vanderbilt University - Finance
Downloads 225 (293,789)

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Cost-benefit analysis, Securities and Exchange Commission, Regulation, Rulemaking, Securities regulation, Dodd-Frank Act

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Pay Versus Performance and Investor Voting Decisions

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 18 Dec 2024
Aiyesha Dey, Berk A. Sensoy, Austin Starkweather and Joshua T. White
Harvard Business School, Vanderbilt University - Finance, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Haslam College of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance
Downloads 181 (361,770)

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SEC disclosures, pay-for-performance, regulation

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Is the Bottom Line the Top Priority? A Choice Model of Revenue and Earnings Guidance

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 15 Jan 2021
Audra L. Boone, Craig M. Lewis, Austin Starkweather and Joshua T. White
Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business, Vanderbilt University - Finance, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Haslam College of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance
Downloads 175 (371,034)

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voluntary disclosure, guidance, revenue forecasts, sales guidance, multinomial logit

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Quantified Cost-Benefit Analysis at the SEC

Administrative Law Review Accord, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2016
Joshua T. White
Vanderbilt University - Finance
Downloads 128 (481,320)

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Cost-Benefit Analysis, Securities and Exchange Commission, Regulation, Rulemaking, Securities Regulation, Dodd-Frank Act, Conflict Minerals

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The Landscape of Auditing in U.S. Capital Markets

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 May 2025
Thomas Bourveau, Jonathan Fluharty-Jaidee, Juan Mao, Min Ren, Martin Schmalz and Joshua T. White
University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, University of Texas at San Antonio - Department of Accounting, Public Company Oversight Board, University of Oxford and Vanderbilt University - Finance
Downloads 68 (728,813)

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Audit market, PCAOB, Auditor switching, Audit regulation, Auditor competition, Audit fees, Sarbanes-Oxley Act JEL Classification: G28, K21, L44, M42

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Ongoing SEC Disclosures by Foreign Firms

The Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 06 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2020
Audra L. Boone, Kathryn M. Schumann and Joshua T. White
Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Vanderbilt University - Finance

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Information Environment, Disclosure, Foreign Firms, Cross-Listing, SEC Form 6-K, Foreign Private Issuer