Activity: Talk/lecture or presentation › Talk/lecture
Description
This webinar is intended for junior scholars who are interested in empirical legal studies in corporate law. In this lecture, I will first introduce the development of empirical corporate law studies in the U.S. I will analyze the impact of the seminal “law and finance” research by LLSV (La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, Shleifer, and Vishny) and the pioneering study on firm-level governance by GIM (Gompers, Ishii, and Metrick) on later corporate law research to understand the development path of empirical corporate law studies. Then I will use research studies on corporate governance as examples to discuss common research designs for empirical studies and causal inference, such as difference-in-differences, event study, regression discontinuity, and instrumental variable. After this webinar, participants will have a fundamental understanding of basic empirical research designs.