Motions for lead plaintiff in securities class actions

Journal of Legal Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 205-244

  Choi, Stephen J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958741418     PISSN: 00472530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/658405     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Choi, Stephen J. 2007. Do the Merits Matter Less after the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act? Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 23: 598-626.
2. Choi, Stephen J., Jill E. Fisch, and A. C. Pritchard. 2005. Do Institutions Matter? The Impact of the Lead Plaintiff Provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Washington University Law Quarterly 83:869-904.
3. Cox, James D., Randall S. Thomas, and Lynn Bai. 2008. There Are Plaintiffs and ... There Are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements. Vanderbilt Law Review 61:355-86.
4. Cox, James D., Randall S. Thomas, and Lynn Bai. 2009. Do Differences in Pleading Standards Cause Forum Shopping in Securities Class Actions? Doctrinal and Empirical Analyses. Wisconsin Law Review 2009:421-53.
5. Cox, James D., and Randall S. Thomas, with the assistance of Dana Kiku. 2006. Does the Plaintiff Matter? An Empirical Analysis of Lead Plaintiffs in Securities Class Actions. Columbia Law Review 2006:1587-640.
6. Eisenberg, Theodore, and Geoffrey P. Miller. 2004. Attorney Fees in Class Action Settlements: An Empirical Study. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 1:27-78.
7. Francis, J., D. Philbrick, and K. Schipper. 1994. Shareholder Litigation and Corporate Disclosures. Journal of Accounting Research 32:137-64.
8. Grundfest, Joseph A. 1995. Why Disimply. Harvard Law Review 108:963-1024.
9. Heckman, James J. 1979. Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error. Econometrica 47:153-61.
10. Jones, C. L., and S. E. Weingram. 1996. "The Determinants of 10b-5 Litigation Risk." Working Paper. Stanford Law School, Stanford, Calif.
11. McCahery, Joseph A., Zacharias Sautner, and Laura T. Starks. 2010. "Behind the Scenes: The Corporate Governance Preferences of Institutional Investors." Research Paper No. 010/2010. Tilburg Law School, Tilburg, Netherlands.
12. Perino, Michael A. 2006. "Institutional Activism through Litigation: An Empirical Analysis of Public Pension Fund Participation in Securities Class Actions." Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-0055. St. John's University School of Law, Brooklyn, N.Y.
13. Simmons, Laura E., and Ellen M. Ryan. 2005. Post-Reform Act Securities Settlements: 2005 Review and Analysis. Washington, DC: Cornerstone Research. http://securities.stanford.edu/Settlements/REVIEW_1995-2005/Settlements_Through_12_2005.pdf.
14. Weiss, Elliott J., and John S. Beckerman. 1995. Let the Money Do the Monitoring: How Institutional Investors Can Reduce Agency Costs in Securities Class Actions. Yale Law Journal 104:2053-127.