This dissertation consists of three independent papers. The first paper investigates the role of incomplete investor information in financial innovations. We analyze the information that structured product issuers provide to the investors and find that issuers have an information advantage over...

This paper examines how accounting transparency and corporate governance interact. Firms with better governance are associated with higher abnormal returns, but even more so if they also have higher transparency. The effect is largely monotonic — it is small and insignificant for opaque firms...