The benefits and costs of directors holding multiple board seats continue to be debated in the literature. We contribute to the debate by examining whether holding multiple outside board seats compromises directors' ability to effectively perform their monitoring duties. Analyzing over 40,000...

Night trading provides an ideal laboratory to assess the behavior of stock markets when institutional liquidity providers are less active. The evidence indicates that extreme positive (winner) and negative (loser) stock price movements during night sessions are followed by reversals the next...

The research on herding behavior in common stocks is extended to contracts traded on European futures markets. We use the Christie and Huang (1995) herding model to identify the possibility of the existence of herding behavior in thirteen commodity futures contracts traded on three European...

Using one composite and five alternative measures of asset liquidity, we examine the role of short-term debt in taming the dark side of asset liquidity: the negative effect of high asset liquidity facing unsecured bondholders. Addressing the joint determination of leverage and debt maturity, the...

This paper investigates the dynamics among three non-equity factors, credit, illiquidity, and foreign exchange risks, and equity returns to explore the equity risk premium. Results from both VAR and EGARCHM models demonstrate that credit and liquidity risk premia and changes in exchange rates...

Our paper examines whether holding multiple outside board seats compromises a director's ability to effectively perform monitoring duties. Analyzing over 1400 firms, we report that individuals who hold more outside directorships serve on fewer board committees. The relation, however, appears...