We revisit the research question centering around the impact of the market for corporate control on stock price crash risk. Using a newly-developed takeover index from Cain, McKeon, and Solomon (2017) that comprehensively considers existing state takeover laws, federal statutes, and state court...

Employing the American Inventor’s Protection Act (AIPA) that mandates, all patent applications are to be published within 18 months after filing, as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that accelerated patent disclosure increases stock price crash risk. This effect is stronger when treated...

Employing the staggered short-sale deregulation on the Chinese stock market as quasi-exogenous shocks, we find that short selling threats is associated with higher corporate default risk, especially for firms that are more financially constrained, with higher growth rates, and higher information...

Despite an emerging literature on the advancement of regulatory technology (RegTech), this paper unveils one of its unintended consequences in the market of corporate control: crowding in uniformed investors and crowding out managerial learning. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the...

Exploiting the staggered implementation of the EDGAR system from 1993 to 1996 as exogenous shocks to information dissemination technologies, we document that faster dissemination of corporate disclosures through the internet increases firms’ future stock price crash risk. These results are...

We propose a behavioral dividend clientele view to explain a unique “ex-dividend day” anomaly on the Chinese stock market. In particular, we find that on the ex-dividend day, the average CAPM-adjusted stock return is significantly below zero and the average trading volume significantly...

Hart and Moore (1994) theoretically analyze how inalienable human capital affects debt contracting. We examine, empirically, how firms address the increased threat of losing inalienable human capital by choosing between private and public debt: Following the staggered rejection of the inevitable...

A recent reform in China, the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program, made a subset of Chinese stocks investable for foreign investors, thus partially opening China's stock market. We use this reform to examine the quantity and quality effects of stock market liberalization on corporate...

Using the extreme returns of firms in unrelated industries of institutional shareholders' portfolios as exogenous variations in institutional investor distraction (Kempf et al., 2017), we find a positive and significant relation between institutional shareholder distraction and stock price crash...

To stabilize their financial markets, many governments implement a number of rescue programs. Direct purchase intervention—rarely observed in the past due to the concern of moral hazard problems and aversion to government ownership—has been commonly considered a potential way to stabilize...