COVID-19 has severely constricted the global economic activities. This paper examines the joint effect of capital structure and corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities on firm risk during COVID-19. We find that firms having excessive debt beyond the optimal level experienced high firm...

Using a sample of reverse leveraged buyout ('reverse-LBO') firms, I find that discretionary accruals quality (AQ), the quality of accruals that are subject to management discretion, significantly improves from pre-LBO to post-reverse LBO. Moreover, buyout houses' board seats and the length of...