Information is key to decision-making and is a major determinant of investment performance. We hypothesise that as analysts are constrained by their research resources, they collect information with more externalities. Measuring information externalities as a stock’s fundamental correlations...

This study investigates the effect of stock market overvaluation of non-peer firms on firm investment measured by capital expenditures. To test this effect, Stambaugh et al.’s (2015) misvaluation measure and Text-Based Network Industry Classification (TNIC) codes are used. The results indicate...

This study examines whether religiosity at the county level is associated with future stock price crash risk. We find robust evidence that firms headquartered in counties with higher levels of religiosity exhibit lower levels of future stock price crash risk. This finding is consistent with the...