Animal waste from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) is a significant contributor to the nitrate contamination of groundwater. Some manures also contain heavy metals and salts that may build up either in cropland or groundwater. To find cost-effective policies for pollution reduction...

Dairy United is one of China’s fastest-growing and most innovative milk producers. Dairy United’s unusual business model has propelled it from underdog to main player during the industry's reshuffle after the 2008 Chinese milk scandal. Instead of making farmers shareholders of the company,...

This paper investigates the implications of model uncertainty for the equity premium in a stochastic volatility model. We consider a general equilibrium setting with one representative agent who has a stochastic differential utility. The results show that the equilibrium equity premium consists...

We study whether mandatory carbon reporting reduces the selective disclosure of favorable versus unfavorable environmental information. Our setting is a regulation mandating firms to report carbon emissions, or mandatory carbon reporting (MCR). Measuring selective disclosure as the difference...

Globally, many inland lakes are shrinking due to water scarcity. In some arid regions, reduced runoff from irrigated agriculture is a leading contributing factor to lake shrinkage. As inland lakes contract, playa dust emissions from receding shorelines create regional air quality problems with...

This paper examines how the macroeconomic environment affects crash risk-policy uncertainty sensitivity. We document that policy uncertainty heightens crash risk, while economic growth diminishes crash risk-policy uncertainty sensitivity through the managers’ policy risk perception channel....

Accounting big baths are pervasive in practice. While big baths can improve the information environment and reduce information asymmetry, they can also degrade the information environment and obscure operating performance. In this study, we examine the role of management ethics. Specifically, we...

We consider the stochastic control model with finite time horizon for a mixed duopoly R&D (Research and Development) race between the profit-maximizing private firm and welfare maximizing public firm. In our two-firm stochastic control R&D race model, the stochastic control variable is taken to...

The going concern (GC) assumption forms the basis for preparing financial statements unless liquidation becomes imminent. ASU 2014-15 requires management to evaluate GC uncertainties quarterly and provide disclosures in the notes. I compare management GC disclosures between the pre-standard and...

This paper investigates the effects of U.S. economic variables on the time variation of Chinese stock market volatility. We find that several U.S. economic variables such as the dividend price ratio, dividend yield and industrial production strongly forecast the future monthly volatilities of...