We study the effect of corporate exposure to weather on bond yield spread. We construct three firm-level weather exposure measures and find that firms exposed to greater weather risk experience substantially higher yield spread on their bonds in the secondary and primary markets. Chanel tests...

The inquiries to return predictability are traditionally limited to the first two moments, mean and volatility. Analogously, literature on portfolio selection also stems from a moment-based analysis with up to the fourth moment being considered. This paper develops a distribution-based framework...

We investigate the nexus between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firms’ stock market liquidity. Using actual firm-level CSR expenditure data and a quasi-natural experiment setup of a mandated CSR regulation in India, we find that firms complying with the mandate and expending on CSR...