On May 1, 2000, the Taiwan government reduced the tax levied on futures transactions on the Taiwan Futures Exchange from 5 to 2.5 basis points. This event provides us with a unique opportunity to test empirically the impact of a tax rate reduction on trading volume, bid-ask spreads, and price...

Using a sample of management forecasts, we find that higher CEO and CFO equity compensation and lower institutional ownership concentration, percentage of independent director, and number of analyst following induce managers to release significantly more bad news, downward biased management...

This paper studies the impact of investor sentiment on the probability of firms conducting seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) and on stock performance around and subsequent to SEOs. We first show that investor sentiment is positively related to SEO probability, and that small, high volatility,...

We examine the effects of CEO neuroticism on corporate policies for cash holdings. We hand-collect the tweets by CEOs at S&P 1500 companies to measure their neuroticism. We find that firms with relatively neurotic CEOs hold more cash than other CEOs. Using two crises as shocks to corporate...

Prior studies show that momentum is induced because investors underreact to information when anchored by the 52-week high (52WH). We propose that investors’ anchoring bias could vary over time and that the dynamic of the nearness to the 52WH better captures the tendency of investors’...

We show that managerial career experiences have significant explanatory power for corporate investment decisions. We use the setting of economic conditions changed from Central Planning to Market Economy, which is an exogenous shock to managerial characteristic, as a natural experiment to test...