Using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2003 to 2018, we show that firms with a high dependence on government subsidies exhibit large stock price crash risk. We establish causality of government subsidy dependence on crash risk using instrumental variable regression and a...

Although liquidity has received wide attention in asset pricing literature over the past decades, how stock liquidity is priced in emerging markets remains unclear. We find that liquidity plays an important role in explaining the cross-section and time-series variation in expected returns by...

We examine the association between customer concentration and capital structure adjustment speed using a sample of listed firms in the U.S from 1977 to 2020. We find that the customer-concentrated firms have a lower speed of leverage adjustment. The decomposition of customer types identifies...

This study investigates the association between stock liquidity and the H-share discount using a sample of Chinese cross-listed stocks in A- and H-shares markets. We examine the liquidity hypothesis by employing depth and trading activity variables. Our results suggest that stocks with a higher...

Using a large sample of firms across 35 countries from 2001 to 2021, we show a significantly positive association between a firm's climate risk exposure and speed of leverage adjustment. A plausible explanation is that climate risk exposure mitigates agency conflicts and improves information...