Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the relation between the creditworthiness of US institutions of higher education and their student selectivity (i.e. demand and quality). Design/methodology/approach: The authors study whether the impact of student selectivity differs across public vs...

This paper utilizes a new data set from AllianceBernstein that, unlike other corporate governance data, has country-level and monthly-updated firm-level governance ratings for 22 emerging markets countries for almost a five year period. With these data we examine the relationship of firm-level...

This paper utilizes a new data set from AllianceBernstein that, unlike other corporate governance data, has monthly-updated firm-level governance ratings for 21 emerging markets countries for almost a five year period. With these unique data, we examine how changes in corporate governance...

In this paper we examine the link between income inequality and financial overconfidence. Using data from the FINRA Foundation’s National Financial Capability Study we measure respondents’ self-perceived and actual investment knowledge and thus identify overconfident individuals. We also...