We test whether military experience of CEOs or chairmen affects stock price crash risk. We find robust evidence that CEOs' or chairmen's military experience reduces crash risk. Our finding holds for various robustness checks including controlling for some additional characteristics of chairmen...

Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) reshapes the way information is collected, processed, and disseminated, but extant evidence on its effects on a firm's transparency and internal control is mixed. We add to the debate by showing that firms' stock price crash risk decreases following ERP...

This study examines the impact of board directors with foreign experience (BDFEs) on stock price crash risk. We find that BDFEs help reduce crash risk. This association is robust to a series of robustness checks, including firm fixed effects model, Heckman procedure, instrumental variable...