Digital financial inclusion (DFI) is newly cited as a significant driver of sustainable development in developing and transition economies, and it is thus likely that DFI affects energy-environment performance (EEP). Here, different from recent studies documenting monotonic links between them,...

We investigate the effects of analysts' affiliation and reputation on dealers' market making activities. We find that, for a given stock, dealers who have affiliated analysts covering the stock quote and trade more aggressively than those who do not have any affiliated analysts. More...

Since 2000, Business Ethics magazine has published a list of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens. Our event study finds significant positive abnormal returns for new companies added to the annual listing on the press release date of the survey, both initially and in subsequent survey releases. Over...

We investigate how the geographic distance between firms' headquarters affects their stock price comovement. Our results show that a firm's stock return has stronger comovement with the returns of nearby firms than with those of distant firms. Being in the same state and/or in the same industry...