Pivotal litigation against the largest subprime mortgage servicer in the US provides lessons about the appropriate regulation of mortgage servicing and adds to research about the causes of the financial crisis. Mortgage servicing is essential to the functioning of the financial system so...

We use an international sample of 20 developed countries to test theories predicting an association between operating leverage with stock returns and the value premium. Results suggest that operating leverage is related to stock returns and the value premium across the sampled countries. These...

Using a sample of stocks experiencing large price changes in 40 countries over 20 years, we investigate the association between investors' traits that vary by national culture – overconfidence, conservatism, and risk tolerance – and proposed theoretical explanations for short-term equity...