Behavioral bubble models typically assume that uninformed trend-chasers, presumably individual investors, cause bubbles, while informed contrarian investors such as institutions trade against bubbles. DeLong et al. (1990a) highlight that to be considered a 'bubble', the mis-pricing must prevail...

Project finance links financial structure to the project's operational characteristics in order to optimize the allocation of project risk and cash flow. We find that project companies use more leverage when project risk is high, but use less leverage when risk-reducing features are present,...

We develop two investment strategy measures by investor type and explore their predictive capability on idiosyncratic volatility, liquidity risk and liquidity commonality. The measures indicate whether each of our nine investor types persistently implements a “positive-feedback” or a...

This paper examines the valuation impacts of outside independent directors in Korea, where a regulation requiring outside directors was instituted after the Asian financial crisis. In contrast to studies of U.S. firms, the effects of independent directors on firm performance are strongly...