Psychological evidence indicates that decision quality declines after an extensive session of decision-making, a phenomenon known as decision fatigue. We study whether decision fatigue affects analysts' judgments. Analysts cover multiple firms and often issue several forecasts in a single day....

We use proprietary data on rank-and-file employees from a large sample to document a negative relation between the percentage of female rank-and-file accounting employees and firms' propensity for internal control weaknesses. This relation is curvilinear. The effect is strong when female...

In October 2014, Estimize.com began providing management guidance on its platform for firms that provide guidance. We exploit this exogenous shock to salience of management guidance as a quasi-natural experiment to study how salience of management guidance affects forecasting behavior. Using a...

“Buy Now Pay Later” (BNPL) is a largely unregulated FinTech innovation that provides consumers with easy access to credit for specific retail purchases. The BNPL market is projected to reach $1 trillion by 2025, but we know little about the effects of BNPL on consumers’ financial health....

This data guide describes how to obtain the brokerage trading volume data used in Lehmer, Lourie, and Shanthikumar (2022) and Lourie, Shanthikumar, and Yoo (2022), from Bloomberg Terminal. The data is available at the broker-stock-day level, allowing for detailed analyses of brokerage trading...

We examine the effects of the July 2021 expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC). We analyze detailed transactions data for 2019 through September 2021, utilizing a difference-in-differences design, and controlling for state-time specific conditions. We find that recipients of expanded CTC...

This study examines how the implementation of the new lease accounting standard (ASC 842) affects banks’ internal credit ratings for their clients. Leveraging ASC 842’s staggered implementation due to different fiscal year ends, we find that, contrary to the concern held by most managers,...