Abstract: This study examines the externalities of mandatory IFRS adoption on firms' investment efficiency in 17 European countries. Using the ROA difference between the firm and its peers to proxy for the information on the peers' investment performance, we find that the spillover effect of a...

This study examines the externalities of mandatory IFRS adoption on firms' investment efficiency in 17 European countries. Using the ROA difference between the firm and its peers to proxy for the information on the peers' investment performance, we find that the spillover effect of a firm's ROA...

In this study, we examine whether firms that act more socially responsible receive more favorable media coverage, and we consider whether firms use CSR to actively manage their media image. We focus on all news stories about a firm, not just those that report on specific CSR initiatives, and...

This paper first compares Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) trends between China and Latin America - the main investors among developing economies today. We discover that although China and Latin American countries have different geographic distributions, their investment in developed...

Evidence provided by Dyck et al. (2019) suggests that, in contrast to European investors, local norms related to environmental and social (E&S) beliefs do not affect the willingness of US institutional investors to push for E&S improvements in US firms. We revisit this issue except, instead of...

We examine the role and economic consequences of emotions in influencing the judgment of corporate executives. Analyzing a large sample of U.S. public firms, we find that sunshine-induced good mood leads managers to make upwardly biased earnings forecasts. Importantly, our evidence implies that...

Governments and policymakers often adopt big push strategies to help under-developing regions achieve economic growth and shake off poverty. Although numerous studies have documented big push strategies' positive impacts on indicators of economic development (e.g., poverty rate, unemployment...

Nitrogen has an essential impact on both sustaining the ecosystem productivity and causing a series of environmental problems, especially for urban agglomeration. The optimization of nitrogen metabolism on urban agglomeration scale can provide strong basis for the reinforcement of sustainable...

This paper investigates the effect of internal information asymmetry (hereafter IIA) within conglomerate firms on the quality of management forecasts and financial statements. We develop a novel measure to capture IIA between divisional managers and top corporate managers, computed as the...