This paper documents that policy uncertainty reduces future stock price crash risk. Our tests show that this negative relation is more pronounced among firms with more short-sale constraints, with no actively traded credit default swap contracts, or with higher firm-level political risks. The...

We analyze, theoretically and empirically, the effect of investor attention on the stock market reaction to innovation announcements and suggest how market-based measures of the economic value of patents can be enhanced. We develop a dynamic model with limited investor attention to show that,...

We investigate the effect of diversity on market reactions to financial disclosure. We show elevated trading volume and stock return volatility around earnings announcements for firms headquartered in culturally and linguistically diverse locales. These results continue to hold when earnings...

We analyze, theoretically and empirically, how salience affects the market reaction to innovation announcements. Hypothesizing that equity market investors pay more attention to more salient announcements, we develop a dynamic model with limited investor attention of patent grant and FDA drug...

We analyze, theoretically and empirically, the implications of salience on innovation announcements in the biopharmaceutical industry. We hypothesize that equity market investors are more likely to pay attention to an innovation announcement that is more salient: thus, investors pay more...