The scarcity of suitable proxies for asymmetric information has impeded empirical research from providing reliable evidence on whether information risk shapes equity pricing. In re-examining this unresolved question, we rely on firms' geographic distance from financial centers to gauge...

The high costs of disclosing confidential information lead firms with proprietary information to prefer private debt (bank loan) to public debt (corporate bond). We provide empirical evidence supporting this proposition using the staggered adoption of the inevitable disclosure doctrine (IDD) by...

This paper examines whether the governance role of foreign block acquirers in U.S. targets is different from that of domestic block acquirers. We find that foreign block acquirers are less likely to engage in post-acquisition governance activities in U.S. targets than domestic control block...