How do investors react to firms “picking sides” along ideological fault lines? Integrating strategic differentiation logic with work on ideological polarization, we argue that some investors will react positively to information that a firm supports a contested social issue and some to...

We study the motive of using equity-based pay in executive compensation: the risk-sharing motive versus the performance-measuring motive. The empirical design goes through the relationship between equity-based pay and stock price informativeness (SPI). We find equity-based pay decreases in SPI,...