We document value and momentum across thirteen well-known stock market anomalies. We find anomalies that have performed well in the past month continue to outperform those that have performed poorly by about 60bp per month. These results hold for both relative momentum and absolute momentum...

Starting from January 2017, all publicly listed firms in the United States are required to disclose a pay ratio of annual CEO compensation to the median employee compensation (Pay Ratio). Opponents of this legislation have argued that this additional Pay Ratio disclosure would simply add to the...

We examine insider trades around the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Insiders purchased shares in record numbers after the stock market decline that began in late February 2020. We find that insider purchases were more pronounced for larger firms, value firms, firms with high levels of leverage...

Many studies document predictable stock returns known as anomalies. We investigate whether insiders exploit anomalies and the consequences of mandatory disclosure using a large backward-extended insider trading database from 1975 to 2014. Our results suggest that all 13 anomalies we consider are...

This paper presents a data point relevant to significant issues of policy concerning areas of law where small firms have either been granted exemption from regulations or not investigated for violations of laws that, on their face, apply to them. Whether small firms should be exempted is an...

We document that African-American executives, on average, earn zero abnormal profits frominsider trades, in contrast to Asian-American and Caucasian executives who earn significantlypositive abnormal profits. We also find that these differences cannot be attributed to differencesin industry,...