We estimate the effects on firm salary, return on assets, and efficiency of wrongful discharge protections adopted by U.S. state courts during 1980-1990. By examining the data of approximately 17,500 commercial banks, we find evidence that all three wrongful discharge doctrines - the public...

At the IPO date, thrifts have a uniquely diffuse ownership structure and regulatory environment. This allows us to perform a natural experiment to test whether managers seek to entrench themselves. We find strong evidence that managers seek the level of ownership commonly associated with...

The CLO shapes and enforces corporate governance, but is faced with a dual-role paradox that requires her to act as both monitor of corporate governance and executive of the firm. We study the role of the CLO under environments that are most likely to impact governance and pressure the firm to...

The purpose of the paper is to show that employees have information on an upcoming bankruptcy years before actual bankruptcy filings. We test our model using employee information against other bankruptcy models from the literature using a dataset from 2008 to 2020. We build a new model to...

Much has been written about the impact of disability laws on employers and employees. Yet there is little empirical support available on whether disability laws impact employers in a negative or positive way. We fill this gap in the literature by studying the impact of state disability laws...

We use firm-level data to study how local knowledge impacts the wage and profitability of commercial banks. Using a novel regulatory and competitive environment as a natural experiment, we find that restrictions on the mobility of local knowledge negatively impact the incidence of new bank...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess how much difference it makes for US firms to use the two-factor ICAPM to estimate their cost of equity instead of a single-factor CAPM. Design/methodology/approach – For a large sample of US companies, the authors compare the empirical cost of...