This paper examines the impact of teamwork on sell-side analysts' performance. Using a hand-collected sample of over 50,000 analyst research reports, we find that analyst teams issue more than 70% of annual earnings forecasts. In contrast, most prior research implicitly assumes that forecasts...

We examine how gender and beauty affect the likelihood of being voted as an All-Star in the financial analyst profession in both the United States and China. We find that female analysts are more likely to be voted as All-Star analysts in the United States, but good-looking female U.S. analysts...

We examine whether an unsophisticated investor's own gender and the gender of a sell-side analyst report writer jointly affect investor's investment judgements. Prior archival research suggests there is no factual basis for investors, irrespective of their gender, to respond differentially to...

Women are underrepresented in leadership positions despite outperforming men in monitoring tasks—an ordinary but critical work activity for most managerial positions. Using a unique data set on internal resource requests from a large Asian property management firm, we examine whether this...

The ethics of tax evasion has been discussed sporadically in the theological and philosophical literature for at least 500 years. Martin Crowe wrote a doctoral thesis that reviewed much of that literature in 1944. The debate revolved around about 15 issues. Over the centuries, three main views...

This study investigates the effect of a CEO's gender on his/her decision to engage in earnings management. We focus on private small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a code-law accounting framework, namely, that of France. From a sample of 30,476 French SMEs for the year 2012, we use...

Gender diversity has tremendously gained attention in the corporate world both among policy makers and researchers. This is because it has been believed that gender diverse board brings different perspectives of idea to the board which enhances the firm financial performance. The purpose of this...

How informative is a firm's voluntary disclosure of its gender diversity? We focus on the FTSE 350 and exploit a 2017 UK regulation that mandates public disclosure of detailed gender pay gap ("GPG") data. Using a firm's GPG revealed post-mandate to proxy for the firm's true gender diversity, we...

Archival research suggests that female executives have an impact on corporate decision-making and generally finds positive associations between female board representation and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performance. However, archival research does not reveal why female executives...

We examine the gender and racial diversity of executives participating in earnings calls, and how it evolves over time. Using transcripts of 44,956 earning conference calls of U.S. public firms from 2002 to 2014, we find that female and racial minority executives are much less likely to speak...