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Amanda P. Cowen
Researcher at University of Virginia
Publications - 15
Citations - 1146
Amanda P. Cowen is an academic researcher from University of Virginia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Underwriting & Severance. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 14 publications receiving 933 citations. Previous affiliations of Amanda P. Cowen include Harvard University.
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Which Types of Analyst Firms Are More Optimistic
TL;DR: This paper examined how analysts' forecast and recommendation optimism varies with the business activities used to fund research and found that analysts at firms that funded research through underwriting and trading activities actually made less optimistic forecasts and recommendations than those at brokerage houses who performed no underwriting.
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Metacritiques of Upper Echelons Theory: Verdicts and Recommendations for Future Research:
TL;DR: In this article, Hambrick and Mason's upper echelons theory (UET) stands as one of the most influential perspectives in management research, but as the literature and its attendant re...
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Damaged Goods: Board Decisions to Dismiss Reputationally Compromised Directors
Amanda P. Cowen,Jeremy J. Marcel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated why some boards are more likely to be associated with financial fraud than others and found that directors generally lose some, but not all, of their board seats following their association with fraud.
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Cleaning house or jumping ship? Understanding board upheaval following financial fraud
Jeremy J. Marcel,Amanda P. Cowen +1 more
TL;DR: Data is used on director departures following 63 fraud events to explore the relative importance of two mechanisms and clarify the understanding of responses to governance failures and the challenges of reconstituting board membership following financial improprieties.
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Which Types of Analyst Firms Make More Optimistic Forecasts
TL;DR: The authors examine how analysts' forecast optimism varies with the business activities used to fund research and find that analysts at firms with underwriting and trading businesses are actually less optimistic than those at pure brokerage houses, who perform no underwriting.