Hydraulic fracking generated unexpected shale oil and gas booms. After these booms, voter support for Republicans rises, leading Republicans to win seats from Democrats. Roll-call voting by House members becomes more conservative after shale across issues extending beyond energy or the economy....

This paper investigates whether information complementarities can explain the strong patterns of sectoral comovement observed empirically. It tests the theoretical model by Veldkamp and Wolfers (2007), which suggests that firms' output decisions are based on aggregate information rather than...

This article examines whether companies experience a stock price decline for the corporate misconduct of their CEOs and top managers. We examine news announcements of illegal insider trading reported in US press during the period 1993 until 2008. We observe a clear negative abnormal return on...