This article examines the pricing of a firm’s carbon risk in the corporate bond market.
Contrary to the “carbon risk premium” hypothesis, bonds of more carbon-intensive firms earn …

In this study we investigate the effect of female director on corporate social responsibility (CSR)
by taking the advantage of the introduction of legal gender quota that led to the …

We use search volume index (SVI) for a CEO's name and stock ticker from Google Trends to
measure CEO publicity, and examine the competing hypotheses on its relation to tax …

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are a new financing instrument that allows start-ups to sell
blockchain-based digital tokens for capital on the Internet. This study tests the effects of disclosure …

The role of board secretaries is a unique institutional feature in China. Individuals in this
senior executive role are responsible for coordinating information disclosure. We study the …

We examine whether beliefs about climate change affect loan officers’ mortgage lending
decisions. We show that abnormally high local temperature leads to elevated attention to and …

We examine the effects of implementing a US approach to the enforcement of mandatory
disclosure in China. Using a hand-collected sample of comment letters (CLs) issued by the …

This study examines the relation between the athletic experience of board directors and
corporate outcomes. We predict that athletes’ attributes, such as physical fitness, mental …

This paper examines listing location as a managerial decision by using a sample of IPOs of
Chinese entrepreneurial firms in mainland China, the United States and Hong Kong. We find …

This paper examines the impact of cyber risks on ventures’ initial coin offerings (ICOs) results.
We match novel data on national cybersecurity with hand collected characteristics of 1,654 …