Purpose: This research explores the path that social media influencers affect target consumers to purchase a certain brand posted in their contents. Design/methodology/approach: Using a sample of 510 Weibo users in China, the conceptual model is tested by structural equation modeling (SEM) in...

Liquidity restrictions on investors, like the redemption gates and liquidity fees introduced in the 2016 money market fund (MMF) reform, are meant to improve financial stability during crises. However, we find evidence that they might have exacerbated the run on prime MMFs during the Covid-19...

We examine the extent to which institutional investors herd in the U.S. corporate bond market and the price impact of their herding behavior. We find that the level of institutional herding in corporate bonds is substantially higher than what is documented for equities, and that sell herding is...

We study the extent to which market participants are informed about firms' political connections when the connections are not publicly disclosed and how it affects pricing efficiency. Using a sample of public announcements of government officials' corruption investigations, we find that, on...

Post-crisis regulations apply stricter liquidity rules to both money market funds (MMFs) and banks, requiring MMFs to do more overnight lending and banks to borrow longer-term. MMFs and banks resolve this dilemma by developing a "bundling" strategy across overnight and longer-term markets. In...