We examine the effects of CEO turnover in banks. Incoming bank CEOs face problems from information asymmetry because banks' operations are opaque and bank risk can change dramatically in a short time. Incoming bank CEOs may therefore change bank policies to manage their personal risks. Since CEO...

We study exposure to pollution information and investment portfolio allocations, exploiting the rollout of air quality monitoring stations in India. Using a triple-differences framework, we show that retail investors' investments in "brown" stocks are negatively related to local air pollution...

The world is currently in the throes of a sovereign debt crisis, which in its enormity far surpasses the Latin American crisis, which occurred two decades ago. The developed economies in an attempt to stimulate the economy during the recent recession adopted extraordinary measures both from the...