Alexander Dyck

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004 and found that fraud detection does not rely on one single mechanism, but on a wide range of, often improbable, actors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004 and found that fraud detection does not rely on one single mechanism, but on a wide range of, often improbable, actors.

TL;DR: The authors assesses whether shareholders drive the environmental and social (E&S) performance of firms worldwide and finds that institutional ownership is positively associated with E&S performance with additional tests suggesting this relation is causal.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the effect of media coverage on corporate governance by focusing on Russia in the period 1999-2002 and find that Hermitage's lobbying is effective in increasing the coverage of corporate governance violations in the Anglo-American press.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of institutional investors in firms' corporate social responsibility choices and the impact of social norms on these investors was explored using a decade of firm-level environmental and social (E&S) performance data from 41 countries.