This study analyzes the effects of the gender (employee-) tenure gap (GTG) on firm value and stock returns. We empirically find that firms with a low GTG earn higher risk-adjusted returns than firms with a high GTG. This is because the former has a competitive advantage in generating higher...

Using monthly and quarterly cross-sectional dispersion in firm level earnings news as a proxy for investor uncertainty about the implications of current aggregate earnings for future discount rates, I find that higher investor uncertainty leads to a lower stock market reaction to aggregate...

Do equity investors care about pay dispersion and income inequality? We address this question by examining equity markets' reaction and investors' portfolio rebalancing in response to the first-time disclosure by U.S. public companies of the ratio of CEO to median worker pay in 2018. We find...