Mobile internet devices reduce trading frictions and information search costs for investors, but also introduce attention-competing activities,such as social networking. We use exogenous nationwide and city-level outages of the Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) to investigate the effect of...

This study examines the effect of individual auditor quality (below the partner level) on overall audit quality. We aggregate audit employee-level performance evaluations to create a measure of auditor quality at the office level. We find that high quality audit offices are associated with a...

Using data from a Big 4 professional services firm, I examine the performance evaluation score penalties associated with part-time working arrangements. First, I establish that performance evaluation scores (1) suffer for employees working part-time, and (2) rebound when part-timers return to...

We examine whether political corruption impedes innovation. Using a comprehensive sample of US firms, we find that corruption has a substantial, negative relation with the quantity and quality of innovation. These results are robust to using various fixed effects, proxies for corruption and...