Traditional tradeoff theories puzzlingly predict that firms use high leverage, issue debt carrying a high duration and low yield spread, and have optimal debt policies highly affected by managerial risk-shifting behavior. We offer an ambiguity-based explanation for these corporate debt puzzles....

The relationship between societal trust and stock price delay is examined across 33 countries for the period from 1985 to 2021. The results showed that societal trust positively impacts investors' perception of information credibility, resulting in a shortened stock price delay. This effect is...

This study examines the effects of shareholders' trust on managers' bad news hoarding. Using a large sample of listed firms from 33 countries, we find that firms domiciled in countries with higher societal trust have higher stock price crash risk, which indicates that managers may exploit...

This study combines conditional Granger causality and network analysis to examine the interconnectedness in the European sovereign credit default swap (CDS) market. We determine that the network is unstable in the short term and stable in the long term. Further, we visualize dynamic networks and...

We examine whether the implementation of the information disclosure and transparency ranking system (IDTRS) affects frms’ value deviation in Taiwan using the annual reports of the listed companies for the period 2001–2004. Using firms value deviation as a proxy for information disclosure, we...

This study examines whether social capital can enhance financial stability. Specifically, we investigate the effects of societal trust on firm default risk in relation to two primary aspects. First, since lower levels of trust induce higher credit costs, it implies more severe adverse selection...

Research question/issue: This study examines whether geographic proximity produces a proximity preference as interlocking frms observe each other and learn innovative behaviors through information transmission among interlocking directors. Research fndings/insights: We study the performance of...

This study empirically investigates the impact of energy related public environmental concerns on the pay gap within polluting companies. It uses the extreme environmental event of the PM2.5 surge at the end of 2011, which led to an upsurge in energy related public environmental concerns in...

This study investigates peer effects in the online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market using data from a Chinese online lending platform (Renrendai). The empirical results indicate that peers’ greater success rate in attracting loans leads to borrowers’ greater success rate (peer effects of...

This study examines the impact of crises caused by modern health pandemics on price efficiency, proxied by measures of stock price delay. We analyze 381,688 firm-year observations across 39 countries during six recent pandemic crises: SARS (2003), H1N1 (2009), MERS (2012), Ebola (2014), Zika...