This paper develops a holdings-based measure of fund performance that distinguishes how fund managers weight stocks in their portfolios and how the managers screen the stocks they choose to hold. I find that screening decisions contribute negatively to the performance of a typical fund whereas...

This study provides evidence that hedge accounting information under SFAS No. 133 is related to rivals' entry decisions. Using detailed U.S. airline-industry data, I find that potential entrants are less likely to enter routes in which incumbents report higher accumulated other comprehensive...

Corporate law has long taken a dim view of corporate lawbreaking. Corporations can be chartered only for lawful activity. Contemporary case law characterizes intentional violations of law as a breach of the fiduciary duties of good faith and loyalty. While recognizing that rule breaking raises...

Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job...

This article studies whether people want to control which information on their own past pro-social behavior is revealed to other people. Participants in an experiment are assigned a color which depends on their own past pro-sociality. They can then spend money to increase or decrease the...

A central result in the theory of adverse selection in asset markets is that informed sellers can signal quality and obtain higher prices by delaying trade. This paper provides some of the first evidence of a signaling mechanism through trade delays using the residential mortgage market as a...

This paper studies information design in social networks. We consider a setting, where agents' actions exhibit positive local network externalities. There is uncertainty about the underlying state of the world, which impacts agents' payoffs. The platform can choose a signaling mechanism that...