A considerable amount of research has been devoted to why R2 differs across firms or markets, although little attention has been paid to the consequences of this difference. We fill this gap by investigating how differing R2 affects investors' assessment of firm value. Using a sample of 90,111...

How stock price synchronicity mirrors firm-specific information has been a subject of much debate. We posit that price synchronicity can be low in either good or bad firm-specific information environments because stock prices incorporate both public and private information. Using three proxies...

Building upon labor market theory, we investigate whether under- or over-investing in CEOs (i.e., strategically paying above or below a CEO's predicted labor market compensation rate) affects long-term firm value and whether there are diminishing returns to these investments. Our results...