We study how trust held by citizens of a lender country towards citizens of a borrower country (“lenders’ generalized trust”) affects pricing and non-pricing terms of international syndicated loans. We find that generalized trust of a lead bank in the syndicated loans reduces loan spreads...

We examine the effect of algorithmic trading (AT) on directors’ learning from stock prices. We find that the sensitivity of forced CEO turnover to stock returns decreases with AT. We mitigate correlated omitted variable bias by using the 2016 Tick Size Pilot Program as an exogenous shock to...

The capital asset pricing model's (CAPM) primary empirical implication is a positively sloped linear relation between a security's expected rate of return and its relative risk (beta). Recent research indicates that inferences about the risk-return relation are sensitive to the choice of the...