The third chapter investigates information free riding around hedge fund activism. Market participants download activist announcement of hedge funds about 23% more often than filings of other types of activist investors. They also review other target firms' filings around hedge fund activism....

A large literature has focused on estimating the returns to schooling and has typically done so by incorporating institutional heterogeneity in quality along merely one dimension (such as average SAT scores). Using longitudinal survey data of registrants for the GMAT exam and school level...

We provide evidence of a positive causal link between financial knowledge acquired through business education and returns on stock investments. Using exogenous variation generated by admission thresholds to university business programs in Sweden, we document that early investments in financial...