Intense competition can compel lobbyists to exaggerate the benefits the government would see in tax returns and social welfare if agency officials allocate such resources to the lobbyist’s members. This incentive to misrepresent grows when information asymmetry exists between lobbyists and...

Can textual analysis improve statistical prediction of risky geopolitical events? North Korea has been the most important source of geopolitical risk for South Korea due to the former's unpredictable and secretive military actions against the latter. We find that the tone of English language...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 사회초년생의 금융 관련 특성을 파악하고 개인재무관리를 위한 금융서비스 제공 방안 등 정책적 제언을 하는 데 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 최근 6개월간 월 평균 개인(본인)소득 100만 원 이상이며 모든...

Using the data obtained from a theme park, this study assesses the effect of rain on the behavior of theme park visitors. The study proposes a new method for identifying the effects of weather by modeling theme park consumer behavior based on a two-stage decision-making process: In the first...

Board quality is likely to have an important influence on CEO compensation. However, there has been little investigation in the literature. We examine the relationship between the quality of boards, pay and pay allocation (incentive versus fixed, CEO versus executives below CEO) of executive...

This paper investigates judicial size premium, the judicial bias in favor of large economic organizations. The Korean judiciary is biased with regard to chaebols (large family business groups). Convicted chaebol-related defendants receive 9.9%p more jail-sentence suspension and 19 month shorter...

We contribute to the emerging literature on strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its antecedents by undertaking a systematic analysis of the effect of rivalry on firm and industry CSR. We deal with the codetermination of competition and CSR by using instrumental variables in the...

We model the internal capital market of a conglomerate where headquarters must rely on information reported by division managers to allocate limited resources across competing projects. Managers may exaggerate project quality to attract more capital, which limits the extent of winner-picking in...

We analyze the Indian Stock Market by introducing a new way of incorporating macroeconomic risks into multifactor models. We demonstrate the validity of our method by developing a large-scale, dynamic and multifactor model. Our model generates several notable findings about the Indian Stock...

This paper proposes an intuitive valuation framework based on the ideas of strategic management, regression, and portfolio theory. I call the framework the “Comparable Firm Finding Algorithm” (CFFA). The CFFA includes, as a special case, the Compara-ble Company Analysis (CCA), one of the...