Eric Helland
Claremont McKenna College
113 Papers
623 Citations
Eric Helland is an academic researcher from Claremont McKenna College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liability & Corporate governance. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 112 publications. Previous affiliations of Eric Helland include Ball State University & Institute for the Study of Labor.
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Papers
Corporate philanthropic practices
TL;DR: The authors studied corporate philanthropy using an original database that includes firm-level data on dollar giving, giving priorities, governance, and managerial involvement in giving programs, and found that firms with higher debt-to-value ratios give less cash to charities and are less likely to establish foundations.
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The Enforcement of Pollution Control Laws: Inspections, Violations, and Self-Reporting
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide empirical evidence on the role of targeting in regulatory compliance and propose that self-reporting by a firm is used to demonstrate that firms are willing to cooperate.
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Pollution incidence and political jurisdiction: evidence from the TRI
Eric Helland,Andrew B. Whitford +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that facilities' emissions into the air and water are systematically higher in counties that border other states, consistent with the hypothesis that local regulators are more lenient in their treatment of polluters when the incidence of pollution falls partially on those outside the state.
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Reputational Penalties and the Merits of Class‐Action Securities Litigation*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used various definitions of board positions as a proxy for the reputation of directors who are accused of fraud and found that the net number of board position is consistently increased.
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Does Three Strikes Deter? A Nonparametric Estimation
Eric Helland,Alexander Tabarrok +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take advantage of the fortuitous randomization of trial outcome to provide a novel strategy to identify the deterrent effect exclusive of incapacitation, and find that California's three-strike legislation significantly reduces felony arrest rates among the class of criminals with two strikes by 17-20 percent.