This paper examines whether and how publicly sponsored advising services can encourage small enterprises and new firms to take the steps required to increase their degree of internationalization. We posit and find that advising impacts the knowledge and skills firms develop. The data examined...

Using the theories of the political marketplace and political instability, we examine the effect of political capital on firms' access to bank loans in relation to the political environment. In particular, we use political capital inequality and political instability to characterize the...

Governance has many dimensions - corporate governance pertains to the firm's management whilst sovereign governance pertains to the firm's exposure to sovereign risk, corruption, and poor regulation. We show that both are important drivers of firm value and this has serious implications for the...

We examine the impact of changes in market microstructure, particularly algorithmic trading (AT) and high frequency trading (HFT), on trade size across 24 stock exchanges around the world. Using colocation services as a proxy for AT and HFT, we find mixed results on the impact of AT and HFT on...

We use institutional-related theories and a unique natural experiment that enables an exogenous test of the influence of controlling shareholders on managerial accountability to corporate fraud. In China, prior to the Split Share Structure Reform (SSSR), state shareholders held restricted shares...

We study the law production race-to-the-bottom/race-to-the-top debate in a unique context of crowdfunding in which potential agency problems are extreme. Our empirical setting is based on survey data from Canada in 2013(Q1) when equity crowdfunding was not permitted but was openly contemplated...

This paper shows stock exchange trading rules are of central importance for the trading location of cross-listed stocks. We consider various measures of sovereign governance and shareholder rights across both developed and emerging countries to assess the complementary effects of other legal and...

This set of slides represents an analysis of crowdfunding survey data in 2013 (Q1). The data and regressions are consistent with the view that different types market participants are well aware of risks associated with crowdfunding and how to appropriately mitigate those risks in view of...