This paper examines the real effects of weather on firm performance, using temperature as our proxy for weather. The relation between temperature and performance depends on season, industry, geographic location, and is often firm-specific. Therefore, to test this relation we adapt a measure of...

Hirshleifer et al. (J. Account. Econom. 38 (2004)) and Taffler, Lu and Kausar (J. Account. Econom. 38 (2004)) document large and statistically significant abnormal returns from trading on balance sheet data and audit opinions. However, the statistical tests ignore high transactions costs,...

We study relationships between stock returns on U.S. and German exchanges for U.S. restaurant companies. Specifically, we examine whether information asymmetry affect how much stock returns in Germany lag stock returns of the same company on U.S. markets. German and U.S. investors differ in...