Yunzhi Hu, Zhaojun Yang, and Nanhui Zhu ♦ We develop a continuous-time model examining agency conflicts among controlling shareholders (managers), minority shareholders, and creditors in corporate investment decisions. The manager’s private benefits encourage over-investment, while their equity stake and debt…
J. Anthony Cookson, Vyacheslav Fos, and Marina Niessner ♦ Using high-frequency disagreement data from the investor social network StockTwits, we find that greater unsophisticated disagreement facilitates informed buying and selling. During periods of overvaluation, the facilitating effect of disagreement on…
Zhi Li, Qiyuan (Rachel) Peng, and Rui-Zhong (R.Z.) Zhang ♦ Using individual records of about 950,000 financial advisors, we find that the probability and intensity of financial advisor misconduct significantly increase after local newspaper closures. The impact is more pronounced…
Thomas J. Chemmanur, Dongmei Li, Kevin Tseng, and Yu Wang ♦ We analyze the effects of limited investor attention on the stock market reaction to innovation announcements and develop a new measure of patents’ economic value. We hypothesize that, when…
Yue Feng, Amedeo De Cesari, and Konstantinos Stathopoulos ♦ We find that firms enlarge the executive pay gap when executive mobility is constrained by more enforceable non-compete agreements. We interpret this finding as evidence that firms increase tournament incentives to…
George Constantinides, Maurizio Montone, Valerio Potì, and Stella Spilioti ♦ Earlier research finds correlation between sentiment and future economic growth, but disagrees on the channel that explains this result. We shed new light on this issue by exploiting cross-sectional variation…
