Surprisingly, prior research finds that the attention paid by active institutional investors to individual stocks has no real effects on disclosure and liquidity decisions by management. In contrast, after categorizing these same active institutional investors as either dedicated or transient,...

We analyze a unique dataset that separately reports research and development expenditures for a large panel of public and private firms. We establish new empirical facts about how equity ownership status relates to innovation strategy and then compare these facts to equilibrium outcomes...

Using the Emerging Market Debt Crises of the late 1990s, a shock that directly impacted some U.S. banks but not their domestic borrowers, we study the causal impact of lender health on covenant-violating borrowers. Using difference-in-differences, we find that banks exposed to the crises become...

Firms with narcissistic CEOs are more likely to experience the turnover of non-CEO executives; this effect is amplified for executives with pay closer to the CEO's pay. Stock price reactions to narcissism-induced departures are more negative the longer the non-CEO executive's tenure. If...

While prior research suggests strict, fair-value-based securities accounting rules cause banks to sell securities into negative liquidity shocks, a value-destroying behavior called "liquidity feedback trading," the mechanism is uncertain. We find the sooner CEOs are permitted to sell their...

Prominent policy makers assert that managerial short-termism was at the root of the subprime crisis of 2007-2009. Prior scholarly research, however, largely rejects this assertion. Using a more comprehensive measure of CEO incentives for short-termism, we uncover evidence that short-termism...

While market prices can be useful tools for bank regulation, recent theoretical work argues that reliance on prices can be counterproductive when secondary markets are stressed and illiquid. Evidence from the financial crisis unearthed by Bhat, Frankel and Martin (2011) provides empirical...

We test whether the well-documented high returns of private equity sponsors result from wealth transfers from other financial claimants and counterparties and from a focus on short-term profits at the expense of long-term value. Debt investors who finance buyouts, as well as buyers of private...

Little evidence exists on whether boards help managers make better decisions. We provide evidence that strong and independent boards help overconfident CEOs avoid honest mistakes when they seek to acquire other companies. In addition, we find that once-overconfident CEOs make better acquisition...

We use the 2008 short selling regulations to conduct the first test of Diamond and Verrecchia's (1987) counterintuitive prediction that short sale constraints can actually increase the information content of short sales. The emergency order made it difficult and costly for short sellers without...