Using hand-collected data on purchases of D&O insurance by Chinese listed firms for the period from 2008 to 2019, we empirically find that D&O insurance negatively associates with credit spreads. The negative relationship still holds after conducting a series of robustness tests and is not...

This study investigates whether and how the perception of carbon abatement pressure affects corporate financing behavior. The results show that carbon abatement pressure increases corporate cash holdings via the channel of financing constraints, and this positive relationship still holds after a...

We investigate the impact of employee treatment on labor investment efficiency. We provide evidence that employee-friendly treatment is significantly associated with lower deviations of labor investment from the level justified by economic fundamentals, i.e., higher labor investment efficiency....

We examine the relationship of corporate social responsibility (CSR) with earnings management in the context of changing regulatory regimes. We find firms with higher CSR engagement are more likely to have higher discretionary accruals before the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) whereas...

This paper investigates the impact of business strategy on firms' trade credit policies. We find that firms following an innovation-oriented strategy (prospectors) offer significantly more trade credit to their customers than those following an efficiency-oriented strategy (defenders),...

This study investigates the impact of trade secrets protection on corporate employment decisions. By exploiting the staggered adoption of the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine (IDD) by the U.S. state courts as an exogenous shock that significantly reduces employee mobility, we employ a...

We examine the impact of climate change uncertainty on supply chain financing. We find that firms significantly curtail trade credit provision during periods of high climate change uncertainty. The cross-sectional variations of this effect with firm-specific factors such as vulnerability to...

This study investigates the impact of material internal control weaknesses on corporate employment decisions. We find that, on average, ineffective internal control is significantly related to lower efficiency in employment decisions. We also find that firms with material internal control...