The revolving credit line is the dominant form of commercial bank lending. We present an arbitrage-free valuation method incorporating a borrower's stochastic credit quality and drawdown behavior. Credit exposure is measured by the size of fixed balance loan of identical term having the same...

This paper develops an agency model to analyze the optimality of executive stock option compensation in the presence of information manipulation. The analyses show that although information manipulation is positively related to the size of option compensation, the relative size of...

Do entrepreneurs work less or harder when they borrow more? This paper tests how entrepreneurial effort is affected by the firm's financing choice. In line with the typical agency theory prediction, entrepreneur effort is negatively related to the magnitude of equity financing. Furthermore,...

This paper examines the effects of executive compensation and potential for earnings management on the incidence of shareholder class action lawsuits and their outcomes. Although damage measurement factors,managerial option intensity, and earnings management all significantly affect the...

The revolving credit line is the dominant form of commercial bank lending. We present an arbitrage-free valuation method incorporating the borrower's stochastic credit quality process and drawdown behavior. Credit exposure is measured by the size of fixed balance loan of identical term having...

This paper studies the impact of female executives on the performance and risk taking of US banks. With a sample of US banks from 2002 to 2010, we find that the inclusion of female executives increases bank performance after addressing endogeneity and reverse causality issues. We also provide...

Would Lehman Sisters have saved the financial industry from the 2008 financial crises? We provide the first empirical test of this hypothesis by investigating how female executives impact bank risk-taking using US bank panel data from 2002 to 2010. Controlling for a wide range of factors...

This paper investigates whether Bitcoin can hedge and diversify risk against the Euro STOXX, Nikkei, Shanghai A-Share, S&P 500, and the TSX Index, and examines the dynamics of these abilities over different data frequencies. Pairwise GARCH models and constant conditional correlation models are...

This paper examines whether the proliferation of new index products, such as commodity-tracking exchange-traded funds (ETFs) amplified the volatility transmission channel introduced by financialization. This paper focuses on the volatility spillover effects among crude oil, metals, agriculture,...

This paper examines changes in executive compensations structure following restatements of prior period earnings, and whether the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) influences how firms react to accounting misreporting when they modify their CEO compensation contracts. Based on a sample of...