This study examines whether a firm's appointment of a problem director could lead to a stock price crash. We argue that an appointment of a problem director is the information "tipping point," which signifies governance failure and other potentially concealed firm-specific bad news that...

Taking note of the wide variety and growing list of models in the literature to explain patterns of behavior observed in laboratory experiments, this paper identifies two tests, the Variety Test (ability of a model to explain outcomes under variety or alternative scenarios) and the Psychological...

The present study examines the heterogeneity of renewable energy consumption, Carbon dioxide emission and financial development in the global panel of 192 countries. Panel quantile regression has been used for tickling distributional and unobserved individual heterogeneity. The findings indicate...

This paper reflects on some of the consequences of replacing debt-based financing with equity-based financing and alludes to some testable hypothesis and theoretical and philosophical debates for future research. The paper complements the analysis presented in the paper of Askari in this issue....