We investigate the effect of shareholder litigation risk on corporate culture. We measure corporate culture by a novel machine learning metric following Li et al. (2021). Exploiting exogenous declines in shareholder litigation rights and derivative lawsuit risk following the staggered adoption...

Underlying idiosyncratic and illiquidity risks are suppressed in infrequently reported indexes of house prices and rents. Idiosyncratic risks result from bid-ask spreads for prices and rents. Time series autocovariances generate a distribution of prices and rents. Capital gains and rent-price...

Underlying idiosyncratic and illiquidity risks are suppressed in infrequently reported indexes of house prices and rents. Idiosyncratic risks result from bid-ask spreads for prices and rents. Time series autocovariances generate a distribution of prices and rents. Capital gains and rent-price...

We develop a model of a cooperative power game between a chief executive officer (CEO) and labor over a proposed corporate outsourcing, and test the model’s predictions concerning the decision to outsource, division of profits, and post-outsourcing firm performance using a sample of...

During the 2010s, the number of community banks in the United States declined by almost one-third, a trend that has worried many stakeholders including communities losing their primary bank, regulators, and the industry itself. This paper provides evidence that the disappearance of community...

This paper comprehensively investigates risk premia in Chinese commodity markets, which are very different from the US markets because of the heavy regulation that attempts to prevent speculation with time-contingent margining and forced liquidation rules, and market participation that is...

This paper studies the impact of having a cadre parent on the labor market performance and channels of the intergenerational transference. Using a recent data set, we find that college graduates with a cadre parent earn a wage premium of 4.46 percent more than those without. They also...

Intuitively, option-like compensation contracts induce risk-shifting behavior, confirmed by numerous empirical studies. However, theoretical work has shown that risk shifting should not happen without a definite expiration date of the option. With a sample of Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs),...

Since its inception as the cornerstone of the ultrafast pulse laser, semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) have attracted considerable interest as the kernel of an ultrafast fiber laser system. Meanwhile, low-dimensional (LD) materials based saturable absorbers (SAs) are gaining...

Since its inception as the cornerstone of the ultrafast pulse laser, semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) have attracted considerable interest as the kernel of an ultrafast fiber laser system. Meanwhile, low-dimensional (LD) materials based saturable absorbers (SAs) are gaining...