Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how the macro-environment influences consumer scepticism towards cause-related marketing (CRM), especially in a turbulent economic setting. Design/methodology/approach: An exploratory qualitative research study utilising open-ended,...

Within the nexus of contracts that makes up the firm, relatively little is known about the relationship between firms and their directors. Using a unique dataset comprising director compensation and activity, I find that firms use meeting fees and equity-based compensation as substitutes. In...

Many executives have compensation that is potentially forfeit conditioned on the circumstances surrounding their departure from the firm. We study firms' endogenous decisions to use such compensation "holdbacks" as a bonding device and find that firms with higher executive replacement costs,...

Since the 2008 financial crisis, executive compensation has been the subject of increased regulation, including the mandatory adoption of compensation clawback policies by the Dodd Frank Act. By allowing firms to recoup compensation from managers who breach their fiduciary duty, clawbacks...

In this study, we examine the distribution of market liquidity for a broad sample of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). While prior research has focused on the average liquidity of REITs, we extend our analysis to include both the variability and skewness of liquidity, both of which have...

A broad stream of research shows that information flows into underlying stock prices through the options market. For instance, prior research shows that both the Put-Call Ratio (P/C) and the Option-to-Stock Volume Ratio (O/S) predict negative future stock returns. In this paper, we compare the...