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Increase in application of mobile robots and the annual growth of robotics industry, cyber security is essential for robot system to ensure the security of human daily life. Cyber‐ attacks such as fault data injection (FDI) or data scoping critically affects the safety of robot systems especially for those which requires continuous supervision or the monitoring of the system operation. As an...

Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry The past few decades have seen a major shift from centralized to decentralized investment management by pension fund sponsors, despite the increased coordination problems that this brings. Using a unique, proprietary dataset of pension sponsors and managers, we identify two secular decentralization trends: sponsors swi...

This research studies buyout sponsors’ incentive and corporate control in Reverse Leveraged Buyouts (RLBOs). By and large, buyout sponsors take LBOs public when LBO structure has achieved the most improvement. Contrary to previous literature, RLBO firms do not experience significant operating performance deterioration after going public. In this study, I empirically measure sponsor incentive us...