We investigate whether a sentiment effect arising from poor air quality impacts stock prices. We find little evidence suggesting that local air quality directly affects stock prices. However, we show that the local air quality index (which is increasing in air pollution) relative to that of...

This paper studies the effects of international coordination failure on resource allocations. Employing the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement as an experiment, we find that U.S. polluting firms increase their emissions and receive bank financing at lower costs after the sudden...

Corporate America is increasingly taking public stances on divisive sociopolitical issues via social media. Exploring S&P 1500 firms’ Twitter responses to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement following George Floyd’s death in 2020, we first document a positive association between proxies...

This paper examines the network effect of information acquisition due to a borrower default. We find that a borrower default is associated with an increase in information acquisitions for non-defaulting borrowers that share the same relationship bank. Such an effect is stronger when the lending...

We use the audit industry in China as a laboratory to examine the role of control right allocation on individual auditors’ incentives when balancing coordination and local information acquisition. Relying on proprietary information of internal control right allocations, our tests reveal that...

Our study leverages detailed résumé data of bank regulators to examine the impact of their early-career experiences with the S&L crisis during the 1980s and 1990s on banking supervision in their later careers. We find regulators with banking crisis experiences in their early careers are...

We examine how information processing cost affects investors' acquisition of firm-specific information using a natural experiment resulting from a recent mandate that US firms be required to adopt the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) when submitting filings to the SEC. XBRL filings...