Shima Amini
Biographic Data
| ID | 3953746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shima Amini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shima |
| FAMILY NAME | Amini |
| SIGNATURE | AMINI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds University Business School University of Leeds Leeds UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2719-8267 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Assessing the Employee Welfare Impact of Right‐To‐Work Laws
We examine the effect of right‐to‐work (RTW) laws on employee welfare using the stacked difference‐in‐differences (DiD) methodology. We posit that RTW laws weaken collective bargaining power, increase free riding, and ultimately reduce employee welfare. We document a significant employee welfare decline following RTW adoption, especially among firms in highly unionized industries. The deterioration is driven by reductions in employee involvement,…
Climate change risk, investor sentiment, and the performance of new entrant firms
Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion
This article considers how international economic expansion impacts on the composition of elite groups on boards of companies. We examine, why, at the height of the British Empire, boards of national, imperial, and international railway companies, financed from London, were dominated by elites drawn differentially from the aristocracy, the military, finance, and politics. To investigate the reasons for these differences, we conduct a social netwo…
Accessing capital markets
The article reconsiders the mid-1890s boom in which a large number of firms in the bicycle, pneumatic tyre and related industries were floated. It investigates why so many of these issues featured aristocratic directors in their prospectuses and finds that they represented social connections that were a necessary condition for regional industrial firms to gain a London listing. The case shows that the role and value of these directors was to acce…
Accessing capital markets
The article reconsiders the mid-1890s boom in which a large number of firms in the bicycle, pneumatic tyre and related industries were floated. It investigates why so many of these issues featured aristocratic directors in their prospectuses and finds that they represented social connections that were a necessary condition for regional industrial firms to gain a London listing. The case shows that the role and value of these directors was to acce…
Accessing capital markets
The article reconsiders the mid-1890s boom in which a large number of firms in the bicycle, pneumatic tyre and related industries were floated. It investigates why so many of these issues featured aristocratic directors in their prospectuses and finds that they represented social connections that were a necessary condition for regional industrial firms to gain a London listing. The case shows that the role and value of these directors was to acce…
Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion
This article considers how international economic expansion impacts on the composition of elite groups on boards of companies. We examine, why, at the height of the British Empire, boards of national, imperial, and international railway companies, financed from London, were dominated by elites drawn differentially from the aristocracy, the military, finance, and politics. To investigate the reasons for these differences, we conduct a social netwo…
Assessing the Employee Welfare Impact of Right‐To‐Work Laws
We examine the effect of right‐to‐work (RTW) laws on employee welfare using the stacked difference‐in‐differences (DiD) methodology. We posit that RTW laws weaken collective bargaining power, increase free riding, and ultimately reduce employee welfare. We document a significant employee welfare decline following RTW adoption, especially among firms in highly unionized industries. The deterioration is driven by reductions in employee involvement,…
Climate change risk, investor sentiment, and the performance of new entrant firms
Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Corporate Finance and Governance (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (2 works) · Aristocracy (class) (1 work) · Balance (ability) (1 work) · Boom (1 work)