This paper examines the relationship between large blockholders and stock price crash risk for the entire population of non-financial companies listed on the Swiss Exchange for the period 2003-2016. The results show that firms held by a large blockholder have a lower firm-specific crash risk...

I examine the real effects of financial markets on the timing of vehicle firms' safety-related recalls. Firms strategically time recalls in response to previously issued long-term debt prescheduled to mature by the end of the fiscal year in which defective products are manufactured. Maturing...

We contribute to the literature on “market timing” by exploring periods of simultaneous equity issues and debt retirements (a leverage decreasing recapitalization, LDR). We hypothesize and show that such LDRs are driven by measures of creditor control but are not predicted by capital...

I examine the role of financial covenants in private debt contracts. I predict that financial covenants help limit ex ante uncertainty about the borrower's performance - the risk that the borrower will default on the loan - in the contract. I find that covenant inclusion is positively related to...

This study uses 469,816 monthly observations of US public firms for the period 1990-2018 to document a strong positive relationship between short-term changes in financial distress risk and future stock price crashes. This result is economically significant as a one interquartile increase of the...

Numerous researchers study stock price crashes, but most of this work focuses on the causes of crashes rather than their consequences. We consider the impact of crashes on a broad range of stakeholders, including analysts, investors, management, and employees. Analysts and investors pay more...

This paper explores the synchronicity of two mega-crises we are now facing: The BP oil spill and the repercussions of the 2008 financial meltdown. It examines some key common threads in both of these crises. The overarching message is that firms must maintain a culture of social responsibility,...

Over time, the development and refinement of corporate governance standards and recommendations have often been the consequence of corporate governance failures. Even if the collapse of Enron and the like, may not have been caused by corporate governance failures in a strict sense, there were...

The beginning of the year 2023 is marked by continued economic instability, some of it still lingering from economic ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic, some brought on by the war in Ukraine, high energy prices and other more regional factors. For businesses of all shapes and sizes, this...

This study seeks to investigate how top management team (TMT) diversity as a double-edged sword influences a firm's resilient performance in abruptly dynamic environments and how TMT group longevity moderates this relationship. Abruptly dynamic environment is characterized by low-frequency,...