Product market power serves as a natural hedge against adverse shocks and competitive threats, thus increasing managerial risk tolerance of innovation investment. Consistent with that, we find that product market power is positively associated with firm innovation input and output. Additionally,...

This study investigates the effect of corporate hedging on stock price crash risk. We test two competing hypotheses. Under the transparency hypothesis, hedging reduces a firm's information asymmetry and lowers crash risk. Under the opacity hypothesis, hedging decreases financial reporting...

Technology spillovers have previously been shown to positively affect a firm's market value and innovation activities. We build on this literature by showing that value-relevant information from technology spillovers significantly reduces the likelihood of the focal firm experiencing a stock...