Does corporate governance affect the timing of large investment projects? Hazard model estimates suggest strong shareholder governance may deter managers from pursuing large investments. Controlling for investment opportunities, firms with good governance experience longer spells between large...

We document a capital supply channel in the connections between firms' and their peers' SEOs. Financially constrained firms are more likely to do an SEO (have higher SEO hazards) when more of their peers conducted an SEO within the prior six months. Positive exogenous shocks to indexer equity...

Firm investment-stock price sensitivity declines in S&P500 index membership, consistent with indexing undermining the “feedback” channel. To address endogeneity, we show that non-indexed focal firm investment is less sensitive to stock prices of peer firms in the index. Results are...

We study “At-The-Market” (ATM) equity offerings, which are direct share issuances sold in the secondary market that forgo underwriters and “dribble-out” shares over time rather than raising them all at once. Enabled in 2008, their use has increased dramatically, and in 2016 their...

We explore how asymmetric information in financial markets affects outcomes in product markets. Difference-in-difference tests around brokerage house merger/closure events (which increase asymmetric information through reductions in analyst coverage) indicate worse industry-adjusted sales growth...