This paper examines the effectiveness of Japans Emergency Credit Guarantee (ECG) program set up during the financial turmoil following the failure of Lehman Brothers, in increasing credit availability and improving the ex-post performance of small businesses. In particular, using a unique...

This paper empirically examines the impact of Japan's debt forbearance policies with regard to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) stipulated in the “Act concerning Temporary Measures to Facilitate Financing for SMEs.” Using unique Japanese firm survey data that identify firms that...

We investigate the significant effects of the September 11 attacks on the Japanese stock market, one of the largest markets in the world. Although several studies have examined the impact of the attacks on the domestic U.S. stock market, few studies have analyzed their impact on the foreign...

We empirically examine firms’ myopic behaviors of inflating current earnings at the expense of long-term earnings by comparing Japanese listed with unlisted firms. We find that listed firms are more likely to engage in earnings management than unlisted firms. We also find that firms are more...

We empirically investigate the adoption of stock option plans in Japan after the corporate governance reforms of the early 2000s. We examine the determinants of stock option grants, especially focusing on the effects of herding behavior among Japanese firms and the change of accounting treatment...

This study aims to examine the positive relationship between stock liquidity and corporate cash holdings in the context of Japan and offer a novel explanation. Our explanation is based on the “dark side” of stock liquidity, according to which liquidity can aggravate corporate financial...

Using U.S, data, Sharifkhani and Simutin (2021) show that industry shocks propagating along this intersectoral trade network can feed back to the originating industry, causing an “echo”–intermediate-term autocorrelation in returns. This "echo" effect is stronger in industries with strong...