This paper investigates the impact of mandatory risk disclosure on the design of foreign bank debt. The Basel II and III Accords require the public disclosure of bank regulatory information under the Pillar 3 or market discipline framework. The new information details bank risk exposures and...

Using the sudden collapse of Lehman Brothers as a natural experiment, we examine whether mutual funds derive value from their institutional brokerage relationships. We find the impact of a damaged institutional brokerage relationship is greatest among mutual fund clients with concentrated...

We examine the effect of algorithmic trading (AT) on the US mutual fund performance and find that funds holding stocks with higher AT intensity have lower holdings return and higher interim trading profits as measured by return gap. This positive effect of AT on return gap survives controls of...

Do market comovements affect international portfolio investment? We examine whether there are systematic changes made to the holdings of equities listed on U.S. stock exchanges by foreign fund managers when their home markets become more correlated with the U.S. We concentrate on international...

We examine the Kondor theoretical explanation of an enduring puzzle: trading volumes and stock return volatility peak after the release of public information. Using a comprehensive data set of institutional holdings and earnings announcements, we find supporting evidence that the proportion of...

Understanding how users of research cope with episodes that potentially diminish trust in accepted knowledge such as the 2007-2009 financial crisis is important for financial economics. Utilizing citations in practitioner-oriented journals I investigate post-crisis changes in authors’...

We examine the effects of fraud committed by mutual fund managers taking into account the dual responsibilities managers have for their employer firm and investors. Performance increases in the immediate aftermath of a scandal being reported, followed by a significant drop suggesting fund...

This paper examines managerial replacements made by mutual fund families. Using a unique hand-collected dataset of 5,242 managerial replacement events from 1990 to 2011, this study finds fund's performance and flow ranking at the fund family level form the basis of mutual fund families'...

We examine whether actively managed equity mutual funds trade on localised information events - syndicated loan covenant violations and changes in bank loan and entity ratings. Local investors achieve positive abnormal stock returns only around covenant violation periods rather than changes in...

Theory argues that the rationale for the existence of closed-end funds (CEFs) is that they provide investors indirect exposure to their underlying illiquid assets without the high cost associated with trading them directly. Consistent with this reasoning, we show that risk-averse investors...