Annual Conference

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Sustainable and Green Finance

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May 2022

Strategic Leadership in Corporate Social Responsibility

Rui ALBUQUERQUE, Luis CABRAL
We propose a strategic theory of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Shareholder maximizers commit to a mission statement that extends beyond firm value maximization. This commitment leads firms to change their actions in ways that ultimately favor shareholders. We thus provide a formal analysis ...
Keywords: Leadership, corporate social responsibility, shareholder model, stakeholder model, externalities, mi
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Annual Conference

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Accounting

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May 2023

Strategic complexity in disclosure

Cyrus AGHAMOLLA, Kevin SMITH
Extensive evidence suggests that managers strategically choose the complexity of their descriptive disclosures. However, their motives in doing so appear mixed, as complex disclosures are used to obfuscate in some cases and as a means of informative communication in others. Building on these observa...
Keywords: Financial reporting complexity, disclosure, complexity, obfuscation, disclosure informativeness, sophisticated investors, MD&A.
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

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May 2020

Stock Prices, Lockdowns, and Economic Activity in the Time of Coronavirus

Steven J. DAVIS, Dingqian LIU, Xuguang Simon SHENG
Stock prices and workplace mobility trace out striking clockwise paths in daily data from mid February to late May 2020. Global stock prices fell 30 percent from 17 February to 12 March, before mobility declined. Over the next 11 days, stocks fell another 10 percentage points as mobility dropped 40 ...
Keywords: stock prices, lockdown policies, market shutdowns, Coronavirus, COVID-19, workplace mobility, China
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows

Stock Market Overvaluation, Moon Shots, and Corporate Innovation

David HIRSHLEIFER, Siew Hong TEOH, Ming DONG
We test how market overvaluation affects corporate innovation. Estimated stock overvaluation is very strongly associated with measures of innovative inventiveness (novelty, originality, and scope), as well as R&D and innovative output (patent and citation counts), and these relationships are hig...
Keywords: stock market misvaluation, innovation, R&D, patents, behavioral finance, market efficiency
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Annual Conference

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Real Estate and Urban Economics, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2022

Stock Market Milestones and Mortgage Demand: Evidence from US

Sumit AGARWAL, Changcheng SONG, Sergio CORREIA, Bernardo MORAIS
We document that after the stock market index reaches a milestone number (round 1000), more households apply mortgage for home purchase, and they are more likely to apply mortgage for second homes compared to non-milestone historical maxima. The loan amount also increases after the milestone event. ...
Keywords: Stock market wealth, Rounding number bias, mortgage
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