This dissertation consists of three articles striding topics from corporate governance to asset pricing. It seeks to understand the costs and benefits of better corporate governance, and how assets such as real estate are priced. My ultimate focus is on corporate governance on both sides of the...

In this study, we use bank loan information to construct proxies for corporate transparency and examine whether these measures reflect information asymmetry in the stock market. Our analysis is based on a novel dataset of stock transactions and bank loans of all publicly listed firms on the...