We examine the effects of CEO neuroticism on corporate policies for cash holdings. We hand-collect the tweets by CEOs at S&P 1500 companies to measure their neuroticism. We find that firms with relatively neurotic CEOs hold more cash than other CEOs. Using two crises as shocks to corporate...

Prior studies show that momentum is induced because investors underreact to information when anchored by the 52-week high (52WH). We propose that investors’ anchoring bias could vary over time and that the dynamic of the nearness to the 52WH better captures the tendency of investors’...

We investigate the effect of funding constraints and the financial crisis on the pricing dynamics between the spot and futures markets. Tighter funding constraints and the presence of a financial crisis deter informed investors from utilizing their informational advantage in the futures market,...

National cultures significantly explain cross-country differences in the relation between asset growth and stock returns. Motivated by the notion that managers in individualistic and low uncertainty-avoiding cultures have a higher tendency to overinvest, this study aims to show that the negative...

This paper examines the stock price behavior around the ex-split dates both before and after the decimalization on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). We find that the abnormal ex-split day returns decrease and the abnormal trading volume increases in the 1/16th and decimal pricing eras,...