In this study, we investigate the tail dependency between bank stocks in China and 35 common risk factors. We measure univariate and multivariate conditional tail risk probabilities. The evidence indicates that tail events from risk factors in the banking, security trading, real estate, and...

Purpose: The question is whether debt market investors see through managers' attempts to hide their pension obligations. The authors establish a robust relation between understated pension liabilities and corporate bond yield spreads after controlling for factors that have been previously...

This paper analyzes the impact of shareholder-creditor conflicts on corporate risk-taking. Specifically, I examine the role played by institutional dual-holders (i.e., those simultaneously holding the same firm's debt and equity) in corporate innovation. Baseline results show that firms held by...

Using proprietary employer-employee matched data of the U.S. Census Bureau, we measure individual workers' risk tolerance towards their jobs by their family labor income diversification, and formally test the firm-level equilibrium matching between capital structure and employees' job risk...

Costs are sticky on average, i.e., they fall less for sales decreases than they rise for equivalent sales increases. We examine the effect of this asymmetric cost behavior on a firm's dividend policy. Given investors' aversion to dividend cuts, we predict that firms with higher resource...

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have shown growing potential in the applications of ion detection, anti-counterfeiting ink and light-emitting devices. However, the photoluminescence (PL) properties of GQDs will be lost when they interact with some heavy metal ions. Effective strategies to improve...

Costs are sticky on average, that is, they fall less for sales decreases than they rise for equivalent sales increases. We examine the effect of this asymmetric cost behavior on a firm's dividend policy. Given investors’ aversion to dividend cuts, we predict that firms with higher resource...