We employ a novel dataset that allows us to study the risk-taking of institutional investors managing collective retirement savings plans on behalf of individuals. Unobservable factors (heterogeneous expectations, risk preferences of institutional investors) explain most of the variation in risk...

We show that earning non-hedge fund income is associated with lower future hedge fund performance. Specifically, generating non-hedge fund income reflects weakened alignment between the incentives of hedge fund management firm owners and the interests of investors. Using a hand-collected...

We examine the sensitivity of CEO compensation to pretax domestic and foreign incomes both before and after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA). Our results show firms reward foreign over domestic earnings prior to the TCJA, when foreign income was tax advantaged relative to domestic...

This study shows that payout policy depends on the market expectation of the repurchase completion rate, within the context of the free cash flow hypothesis. Our model formulates that the amount of agency costs that are unlikely to be reduced discounts the share price at the announcement of...

Manuscript typeResearch paperResearch aimsWe investigated how corporate governance (CG) affects firm performance (FP) and extends the agency theory by investigating how information asymmetry (IA), proxied by analyst coverage, affects FP in an emerging market.Design/methodology/approach3SLS...

We develop a dynamic tradeoff model that incorporates both controlling-minority shareholders conflict and shareholders-debtholders conflict to examine the relationship among agency conflicts, expansion investment, capital structure, and debt renegotiation. We show that balancing the two...

The rise of intermediary-less decentralized finance (“DeFi”) lending has led many to wonder how it should be regulated. Although DeFi lending could potentially offer reduced risks of centralization and market frictions, investors in DeFi lending are currently exposed to centralized risks and...

Agency and wholesale models are widely adopted vertical contractual agreements. This paper compares the private incentives and social welfare of these two business models by highlighting the differences in move order and price structure. With a monopoly platform, the agency model dominates the...

This paper assesses the emerging regulatory framework for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). According to this framework, mergers of SPACs, known as de-SPACs, must be “fair” to public (or unaffiliated) SPAC shareholders, and transaction participants face heightened liability risk...

In 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey. The case is often associated with a theory of private delegation--that is, that Congress can delegate its federal eminent domain authority to private companies to build natural gas pipeline projects on state land. But...