We investigate how M&A activities are used to allocate R&D resources within firm boundaries. We find that Chinese listed firms exhibit strong intra-firm R&D reallocation behaviors following M&A activities from 2007 to 2017. Specifically, they shift innovation activities to subsidiary firms. The...

We examine the role of firm-level political risk in the capital structure dynamics for the U.S. listed firms from 2002 to 2017. We find that firm-level political risk facilitates firms' speed of adjustment towards its target leverage, and such a positive effect holds for categorical political...

We evaluate the association between social networks and household income using a panel dataset of representative households in China constructed from the 2011 and 2013 waves of the China Household Financial Survey (CHFS). The results show that social networks are positively associated with the...

We evaluate the association between intangible intensity and stock price crash risk for U.S. listed firms from 1983 to 2017. The results show that intangible-intensive firms are associated with high crash risk. The decomposition of intangible intensity identifies goodwill as the driving force...