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...

Extreme market movements, especially in recent years, prompt our efforts to better understand the complexities of market dynamics. This paper seeks a better understanding of the features that characterize market environments through time. Specifically, we first demonstrate how market distress...

We document the existence of an anomalous asset growth effect globally and find that it comprises some combination of a market mispricing and some pervasive global systematic risk. To support our findings, we explore a battery of tests to include how country-level governance and market...

The hedge fund industry has grown from $200 billion in assets under management around the turn of the millennium to now over $3 trillion. Many reports have criticized hedge funds for poor performance, particularly since the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC). In this paper, I seek to demystify...