The experiment was conducted at the Horticultural farm of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, during the period from April, 2009 to March, 2010 to investigate the effect of potassium levels on growth, flowering and bulb yield of tuberose. The experiment consisted...

This paper examines the effect of local religiosity on employee treatment, proxied by workplace safety incidents. Using the establishment-level data compiling on the incidents of work-related injuries, we find that employees of the establishments in more religious counties get less injured than...

This paper examines how the relationship between stock returns of U.S. firms and WTI oil prices is affected by leverage (debt to total assets) from 1990 to 2020. Results from our fixed-effect regression models suggest that leverage effects on stock returns are pervasive both in aggregate and...

An experiment was conducted at Horticulture farm, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh from November, 2011 to June, 2012 to find the out better level of zinc on growth, flowering and production of corms and cormels of gladiolus. Experiment consisted four different levels...

This study examines the effect of oil price uncertainty (OPU) on corporate innovation productivity. Using firm-level innovation data of US firms, we find that an increase in OPU causes a reduction in future innovation outcomes, proxied by the number of patents and subsequent citations. This...

Using the establishment-level data compiling on the incidents of work-related injuries from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), we find that workplace injury and illness rates decrease with institutional ownership stability. Our further analyses show that firms with more...

Following Miles and Snow’s Business Strategy (BS) topology, we find that banks imposerelatively higher loan spreads for the firms that follow an Innovation-Oriented Business Strategy(IOBS). We further document that IOBS is positively associated with corporate risk measures suchas variances in...