Korean Abstract: 본 논문은 금융산업지수(KOSPI 금융업 지수와 KRX Banks 지수)와 개별 금융기관(6개 시중은행과 4개 지방은행)의 주가 수익률의 조건부 분산을 GARCH-ARJI 모형을 활용하여 분석하고, 수익률의 급격한 변화와 관련 있는...

We examine the capital structure of firms that are newly added to the S&P 500 index. Leverage gradually decreases during the two-year pre-addition period and then increases during the two-year post-addition period, resulting in a U-shaped trend. This trend is more pronounced in financially weak...

I examine the effects of fair value reporting of derivatives, in accordance with SFAS No. 133, on corporate risk management policies and firm value. Prior studies predict that effective risk management through derivatives use reduces demand for liquidity (cash, credit lines) and increases debt...

We study the effect of credit default swaps (CDS) on a firm's risk shifting. Because CDS provides insurance against default, bondholders become indifferent whether a firm defaults and likely reduce monitoring efforts. Moreover, CDS strengthens bondholders' bargaining power, potentially leading...

Korean business groups, chaebol, reduced operational risk in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis by reducing (increasing) investment in risky (safe) member firms. Risk reduction was accompanied by capital reallocation from risky member firms to safe member firms through equity...

Two contrasting explanations are offered in the literature for the R&D-to-market anomaly: mispricing of R&D resulting from limited investor attention to R&D spending, and the failure of conventional risk factors to completely capture the risk associated with R&D. Exploiting accounting treatments...

We examine the effects of environmental regulations on corporate environmental and financial performance, exploiting the first phase of the Korean Emissions Trading System (ETS) as an exogenous shock. We find that treated firms did not reduce their carbon emissions during the sample period, but...

We hypothesize that firms are incentivized to manage corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategically as a result of social pressure, uncertain value implications, and investors' reliance on delimited measures of CSR performance. To test our hypotheses, we analyze Korean firms, whose ratings...