Financial relationships can alleviate the adverse effects of asymmetric information and agency costs on outside stakeholders. We examine announcement returns to PIPE transactions, conditional on the contract terms and identity of the investor. We find that the influence of contract terms on...

Using data from 2002 to 2013, we examine the impact of algorithmic trading on firm value. The results show that algorithmic trading generates net benefits for firm value through impacting stock liquidity, idiosyncratic volatility, and idiosyncratic skewness, and firms benefit more from...

Firms with narcissistic CEOs are more likely to experience the turnover of non-CEO executives; this effect is amplified for executives with pay closer to the CEO's pay. Stock price reactions to narcissism-induced departures are more negative the longer the non-CEO executive's tenure. If...