This study examines the institutional demand for mispriced stocks with incongruent expectations implied by book-to-market ratio and financial strength. Consistent with the argument of expectation errors in value/glamour stocks (Piotroski and So, 2012), institutional investors buy value stocks...

Labor income shares have been falling in many advanced and emerging economies within the last few decades, partly as a result of a combination of impacts from technology and increased global integration. This in turn is associated with the relatively slow growth of wages, especially for...

Using a proprietary data set on the undisclosed voting records of analysts and professional investors on listed firms for Investor Relation (IR) Awards in Hong Kong, we show that the valuation effect of IR award announcements is positively significant. More importantly, awardees receiving...

International financial integration has accelerated at an unprecedented pace in recent years. External holdings of financial assets and liabilities for both industrial and emerging countries have grown rapidly since the mid-1990s, many times exceeding their respective national income, and...