Business Scholarship Podcast

Steven Xiao, associate professor of finance and managerial economics at the University of Texas at Dallas, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his paper Do Consumers Care About ESG? Evidence from Barcode-Level Sales Data. The paper was co-authored with Jean-Marie Meier (University of Texas at Dallas), Henri Servaes (London Business School), and Jiaying Wei (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics).

Nicole Iannarone, associate professor of law at Drexel University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Small Claims Securities Arbitration. As part of the interview, Iannarone discusses how listeners can become securities arbitrators in the FINRA forum. Listeners can learn more at FINRA’s Become an Arbitrator page.

Natalya Shnitser, associate professor of law at Boston College, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article The 401(k) Conundrum in Corporate Law.

Anat Admati, professor of finance and economics at Stanford Univeristy, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her book The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It, which she co-authored with Martin Helwig.

James An, the teaching fellow for the LLM Program in Corporate Governance & Practice and a lecturer in law at Stanford University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article The Direct-Derivative Distinction in Shareholder Suits.

Anne Choike, associate clinical professor of law at Michigan State University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Local Firm Governance.

Martin Sybblis, associate professor of law at Emory University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Corporate Law as Decolonization.

Adam Eckart, associate professor of legal writing at Suffolk University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article In Business We Trust.

Narine Lalafaryan, assistant professor of corporate law at the University of Cambridge, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Private Credit: The Evolution of Corporate Finance and The Firm.

J.W. Verret, associate professor of law at George Mason University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Disgorgement Accounting After Liu v. SEC in Securities Enforcement Cases.

André Mancha, a PhD in economics candidate at Insper, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his paper Dismantling a Market for Stolen Goods: Evidence from the Regulation of Junkyards in Brazil.

Michael Guttentag, professor of law at Loyola Marymount University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his book chapter What Inside Information Is Worth and Why It Matters, which will be included in the forthcoming Research Handbook on Insider Trading (second edition).

Miriam Baer, professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her new book Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime.

Daniel Listwa, an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Shareholder Lock-in and the Corporate Soul: Implications for the First Amendment.

Anthony Casey, professor of law at the University of Chicago; William Organek, assistant professor of law at the Baruch College Zicklin School of Business; and Lindsey Simon, associate professor of law at Emory University join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss the legal, commercial, and social issues at play in the Supreme Court’s upcoming Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P. bankruptcy case.

Mariana Pargendler, professor at FGV São Paulo Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her paper Corporate Law in the Global South: Heterodox Stakeholderism, which examines how Global South jurisdictions innovate in their corporate laws to protect stakeholders, channel economic distribution, and address other social problems.

Melissa Newham, a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her paper The Cost of Influence: How Gifts to Physicians Shape Prescriptions and Drug Costs, which was co-authored with Marica Valente, assistant professor of economics at the University of Innsbruck.

Andrew Tuch, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Fairness Opinions and SPAC Reform. This article compares the use of financial fairness opinions in traditional M&A versus SPAC transactions and finds that the latter usage has been inadequate in light of the internal conflicts of interest inherent to SPACs.

Laura Boudreau, assistant professor of economics at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and Ada González-Torres, assistant professor of economics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their paper Monitoring Harassment in Organizations, which they co-authored with Sylvain Chassang of Princeton University and Rachel Heath of the University of Washington. In this paper the authors use a randomized control trial to demonstrate survey methods for detecting harassment and other interpersonal misconduct in the workplace.

Guha Krishnamurthi, associate professor of law at the University of Maryland, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his essay Title VII and Caste Discrimination, which he co-authored with Charanya Krishnaswami. The essay introduces the South Asian caste system and analyzes the experience of caste discrimination in U.S. workplaces, along with remedies against caste discrimination under existing and new federal and state legislation.

Andrew Schwartz, professor of law at the University of Colorado, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his book Investment Crowdfunding.

Lindsey Gallo, assistant professor of accounting at the University of Michigan, and Kendall Lynch, an accounting PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their article Out of Site, Out of Mind? The Role of the Government-Appointed Corporate Monitor. In this article, Gallo, Lynch, and co-author Rimmy Tomy find that post-enforcement corporate monitorships are associated with reductions in law violations during a monitor’s tenure but that those reductions may not persist after the monitorship.

Hajin Kim, assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Expecting Corporate Prosociality, which uses survey experiments to demonstrate a stakeholder-expectations theory for consumer, employment, and investment interactions with corporations.

Jordan Neyland, assistant professor of law at George Mason University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Do Lawyers Matter in Initial Public Offerings?, which he co-authored with Thomas Bates of Arizona State University and Jin Roc Lv of Australian National University.

Todd Phillips, assistant professor at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article The Major Questions Doctrine’s Domain, which he co-authored with Beau Baumann of Yale University. In this article, Phillips and Baumann explain that the Supreme Court’s novel Major-Questions Doctrine does not apply in cases in which executive agencies bring judicial enforcement actions or seek to apply judicial precedent. In making their case, they use challenges to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s crypto enforcement actions as a case study.