Financial distress is a vexing managerial challenge for businesses worldwide, especially during a turbulent period like the COVID-19 pandemic. Motivated by an increasing number of closed businesses in Vietnam during the recent COVID-19 pandemic, this study is conducted to provide a comprehensive...

The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on firms' performance have been extensively investigated. However, the abnormal returns and volatilities across industries during different waves of the pandemic using an event study have largely been neglected in the existing literature, particularly for...

Relying on the assumption that equity market provides useful information for firm decision, this study examines the effect of stock liquidity on corporate capital structure decision. We also analyze whether this effect varies according to country-level institutional environments. Using a...

This paper investigates the relation between analyst coverage and stock liquidity with a focus on the role of information produced by financial analysts. Using a comprehensive dataset across 41 countries for the period 2000-2010, we document two novel findings. First, analyst coverage is...