In this paper, we shed light on the narrative that listing contributes to risk-taking by examining the risk characteristics of listed BHCs, small enough to be private, against a sample of comparable private BHCs large enough to be listed over the 1990 to 2019 period. We measure our proxies for...

The main focus of this research is to construct an optimal portfolio in Indian Market with the help of Sharpe Single index model. The construction of an optimal portfolio has become increasing challenging in recent years, as investors expect to maximize return and minimize risk from their...

Prior research suggests that the media plays an important information intermediary role in capital markets. We investigate the role of the media in influencing firms' engagement in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. Using a large sample of 4,396 unique firms from 42 countries over...

In this article, we identify and review instrumental variables used to study the relation between national culture and finance. Recognizing that an effective instrument must be correlated with the endogenous variable (relevance condition) and must not be correlated with the outcome variable...

We re-examine the impact of analyst coverage on firm innovation and find that the negative relation between analyst coverage and innovation is driven by firms that are poor-quality innovators. In contrast, analysts do not hinder innovation in firms that are efficient innovators. These findings...