Does the plaintiff matter? An empirical analysis of lead plaintiffs in securities class actions

Keyphrases

• Insecurity 100%
• Plaintiff 100%
• Securities Class Actions 100%
• Institutional Investors 21%
• Reform Acts 21%
• Private Securities Litigation 21%
• Securities Fraud Class Action 15%
• Counsel 10%
• Settlement Size 10%
• Sweeping 5%
• Statistical Analysis 5%
• Litigation 5%
• Class Members 5%
• Relative Impact 5%
• Agency Costs 5%
• Shareholders 5%
• Anecdotal Evidence 5%
• Financial Interest 5%
• U.S. Congress 5%
• Law Firms 5%
• Class Representative 5%
• Pay-to-play 5%
• Procedural Reform 5%
• Rebuttable Presumption 5%

Economics, Econometrics and Finance

• Institutional Investor 100%
• Securities Fraud 75%
• Investors 50%
• Law Firm 25%