Impact investing has great potential to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by financing the growth of social sector organizations. This paper conducts a systematic literature review to develop cumulative insights into impact investing in social sector organizations. It...

We examine the impact of financial statement comparability on managers' use of corporate resources. Using the comparability measures of De Franco, Kothari, and Verdi (2011) as proxies for financial statement comparability, we find that, as comparability increases, corporate cash holdings are...

In a seminal study, Elton and Gruber (1970) argue that ex-dividend day pricing can be used to infer the marginal tax rates of shareholders. If this view is correct, managers of individual firms would be provided with information of relevance to major financing and distribution decisions. We...