Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance

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May 2017

Chinese firms with characteristics commonly associated with corporate self-dealing are more likely to have executives investigated by the anti-corruption campaign. University affiliations with the top current leaders are associated with a reduced probability of investigation, but general political a...
Keywords: Anti-Corruption Campaign, China, corporate culture
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Annual Conference

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Investment Finance

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May 2022

While major stock market indices are followed by large monetary investments, we document that membership decisions for S&P 500 have a nontrivial amount of discretion. We show that firms’ purchases of S&P ratings appear to improve their chance of entering the index (but purchases of Moodyâ€...
Keywords: S&P 500, Conflict of interest, Credit rating, Stock index
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Annual Conference

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Accounting

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May 2021

We examine the effect of cultural heterogeneity on corporate disclosure time orientation and its capital market consequences. To measure firms’ and investors’ cultural time orientation, we use their home country’s long-term orientation (LTO) and the dominant language future time reference (FTR...
Keywords: Cultural heterogeneity, capital market, liquidity, equity
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Annual Conference

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Investment Finance

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May 2015

We propose a new, price-based measure of information risk called abnormal idiosyncratic volatility (AIV) that captures information asymmetry faced by uninformed investors. AIV is the idiosyncratic volatility prior to information events in excess of normal levels. Using earnings announcements as info...
Keywords: Information Risk, Idiosyncratic Volatility, Earnings Announcement, Expected Returns
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Annual Conference

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Investment Finance

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May 2021

The explosion in ESG research has led to a strong reliance on ESG rating providers. We document widespread changes to the historical ratings of a key rating provider, Refinitiv ESG (formerly ASSET4). Depending on whether the original or rewritten data are used, ESG-based classifications of firms int...
Keywords: ESG ratings, ESG investment, CSR
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