This paper examines environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance around seasoned equity offerings (SEOs). A firm may improve ESG performance prior to SEOs to the extent that it believes that investors will be more favorable to firms with better ESG performance (window-dressing...

We examine the effects of environmental regulations on corporate environmental and financial performance, exploiting the first phase of the Korean Emissions Trading System (ETS) as an exogenous shock. We find that treated firms did not reduce their carbon emissions during the sample period, but...

I investigate how a CEO's prior performance affects her managerial decision making. Controlling for CEO fixed effects and employing reference points, I find that CEOs choose less risky projects after making gains. This result suggests that following good performance, a CEO feels relaxed and...