This paper is the first to investigate the role of work-life balance in financial analysts' performance and career advancement. Using a large sample of Glassdoor reviews by financial analysts, we find a significant non-linear relation between perceived work-life balance and analyst performance...

Using a novel dataset of online job postings by accounting firms, this study empirically examines audit offices’ skill preferences and whether they relate to audit quality. Consistent with prior work in labor economics, we find the demand for cognitive, social, and technology- related skills...

We hypothesize that employee mobility between organizations will be lower when the organizations’ managers share affiliation ties. We test this idea by examining interorganizational employee mobility between large corporate law practices. We find that a practice area is less likely to hire...

This paper is the first to investigate the role of work-life balance in financial analysts’ performance and career advancement. Using a large sample of Glassdoor reviews by financial analysts, we find a significant non-linear relation between work-life balance and analyst performance and...

Research documents price comovements or “spillovers” between focal firms and peer firms at focal-firm-earnings announcements. We find signed and absolute comovements between focal-firm and peer-firm returns are significantly lower at earnings-announcement dates compared to non-announcement...

CFO resignations are becoming more common among publicly traded firms. We use sudden deaths of CFOs as an exogenous shock to CFO departures to examine how a CFO’s sudden departure affects firm financial reporting quality. We find that when a CFO dies suddenly, the likelihood the firm will...