This paper predicts and finds that investor uncertainty surrounding a key information release event—the earnings announcement—is decreasing in a firm's reporting streak. We use three proxies related to investor ex ante uncertainty and corresponding pricing of such uncertainty: option-implied...

We test whether investor disagreements and private information in the market impact the demand for, and the pricing of, insurance sought by investors before earnings announcements (EAs). Using a large sample of straddle returns, we find higher EA variance risk premiums (VRPs) for firms with a...

In this study, we examine negative skew premiums in the option equity markets around earnings announcements. Prior literature suggests stock returns are more negatively skewed on earnings dates but theoretical models suggest that anticipated price jumps should not carry a skew premium. We use...

This paper uses a novel empirical setting to explore the association between a firm's operational risk, managerial monitoring costs, and how managers are compensated. We investigate a sample of supplier firms that rely on a few large customers for the bulk of their revenues. We predict that...

This paper provides new empirical insights on the association between a firm's operating structure and the level of CEO equity incentives. We investigate a sample of supplier firms that rely on a few large customers for a significant fraction of their revenues. We predict that suppliers with a...