Annual Conference

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Investment Finance

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May 2019

This paper studies the implications of environmental pollution on the cross-section of stock returns. A long-short portfolio constructed from firms with high versus low toxic emission intensity within industry generates an average return of 5.52% per annum. To explain this pollution premium, we deve...
Keywords: Toxic emissions, Regime shift risk, uncertainty, Environmental regulation, Cross-section of stock returns
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Annual Conference

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Investment Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2019

We find large overnight returns with no abnormal variance before nonfarm payrolls, ISM, and GDP announcements, similar to the pre-FOMC returns. To explain this common pattern, we propose a two-risk model with the uncertainty about the magnitude of the impending news' market impact as an additional r...
Keywords: Pre-Announcement Drift, Macroeconomic Announcements, FOMC, Heightened Uncertainty, VIX
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Annual Conference

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Investment Finance

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May 2019

Neoclassical theory suggests that stocks exposed to common pricing factors must face common production risks. We estimate firm-level productivity shocks and decompose them into six aggregate risk components via asymptotic principal component analysis. We find that fundamental risks drive 13 of 15 pr...
Keywords: productivity shocks, production-based asset pricing, pricing factors, empirical asset pricing models
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Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance

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May 2019

How does the organizational form of loan syndicates evolve and what are the effects on price collusion? We develop a novel measure of distance in lending expertise among syndicate lenders, and relate this novel measure to the organizational form of loan syndicates and loan pricing. Studying the U.S....
Keywords: Syndicated loans, Loan syndication structure, Loan pricing, Price collusion
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Corporate Finance, Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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May 2019

This paper investigates how legal reforms affect credit markets by studying the introduction of courts specialized in bankruptcy in China. We construct a new case-level dataset on corporate bankruptcy filings and exploit the staggered introduction of specialized courts across Chinese provinces. Spec...
Keywords: Financial Distress, Zombie firms, Judges, Court efficiency
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