There is no consensus in the literature regarding the financial consequences of megamergers in part due to the difficulty in establishing a good counterfactual. By comparing the performance of these deals to the performance of synthetic mergers constructed using a novel matching procedure, we...

By employing a novel, hand-collected sample of withdrawn and completed share-issue privatizations (SIPs) we show that both groups undergo comparable restructuring processes over the three years preceding the event. We employ matching procedures to explicitly control for the identified...

This appendix contains supplementary material to the analyses reported in the paper. Appendix Section I presents the variation in the principal KLD-based measures of corporate social responsibility. Appendix Section II defines the key variables. Appendix Section III reports a summary of the most...

Classification shifting is defined in the literature as managers' intentional classification of certain core expenses as income-decreasing special items with the intent to inflate reported core performance. We develop and validate a new measure of firms' propensity to engage in this reporting...

The abnormal decline in the number of US public firms is often blamed on merger activity, private equity investments, and stock market regulations. We compare and quantify the effects of these channels on the evolution of the US listing gap in a unified framework. In the US, an extra 100 mergers...

We develop a novel metric of environmental corporate social responsibility (CSR) rivalry capturing the sustainability engagements of a firm relative to its “green” and “toxic” peers. We document that our measure has superior predictive power about firms' future pollution levels when...

Growth equity (GE) funds have emerged as the third major private equity asset class for investors, alongside venture capital (VC) and buyout (B/O) funds, and as an important new source of external equity capital for private companies and entrepreneurs wishing to fund growth without surrendering...

We analyze the relationship between corporate reliance on alternative work arrangements and stock returns by documenting that an equal-weighted portfolio of the “ 100 Best Companies for Remote Working Jobs ” earned an annualized four-factor alpha of 7.44% over the period 2014 to 2019. Firms...

This document reports additional tables discussed in the paper “Corporate Innovation in the Cyber Age”. This tables complements those included in our study. In particular, Table OA.I extends Table I, in the paper, by reporting a long list of recent working paper investigating the financial...