Purpose: New Zealand reintroduced titular honours (i.e. knighthoods and damehoods) in 2009. We document the prevalence of knights and dames on the board of directors. Design/methodology/approach: We use a probit regression to investigate what firm characteristics are significantly associated...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine distributional properties of the accumulated rate of interest when the instantaneous rate of interest evolves in terms of the Cox et al. (1985) square root process. Design/methodology/approach: The law of iterated (or double) expectations is...

We study how short selling affects corporate tax avoidance. By exploiting staggered short-sale deregulation on the Chinese stock market as a source of variation in market pressure and monitoring, our difference-in-differences estimates show that the introduction of a short-selling scheme...

Intraday return predictability has firstly been identified in the equity markets, and we extend the analysis to the crude oil market by using high-frequency United States Oil Fund data from 2006 to 2018. We find a different intraday prediction pattern in the oil market, where only the first...

We develop the Cox, Ingersoll and Ross (1985b) “technological uncertainty variable” in terms of a skewed Student “t” probability density with mean reverting sample paths and time varying volatility so that it can accommodate negative real interest rates. The Fokker-Planck equation is...

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to determine distributional properties of the accumulated rate of interest when the instantaneous rate of interest evolves in terms of the Cox et al. (1985) square root process.Design/methodology/approachThe law of iterated (or double) expectations is used to...

We examine the relations between corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures, dividend payments, and firm value. We use an international sample and measure CSR disclosures based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) disclosure levels, which we divide into two parts (unexpected and expected...