We examine the effects of corporate lawsuits in China and find that litigation announcements depress the stock prices of both defendant and plaintiff firms. Financially distressed defendants suffer lower stock returns. We find that politically connected defendants are favored in the judicial...

The paper establishes if dividend policy is a trustworthy indicator for the investors to predict a company's future growth in value to maximize their returns on their portfolios. The analysis technique used is cross-sectional regression analysis since the research focuses on various companies...

A recent stream of experimental economics literature studies the factors that contribute to the emergence of financial bubbles. We consider a setting where participants sorted according to their degree of risk aversion trade in experimental asset markets. We show that risk sorting is able to...