While the importance of currency movements to industry competitiveness is theoretically well established, there is little evidence that currency risk impacts US industries. Applying a conditional asset-pricing model to 36 US industries, we find that all industries have a significant currency...

While the signalling hypothesis has played a prominent role as the economic rationale associated with the initial public offering (IPO) underpricing puzzle (Welch, 1989), the empirical evidence on it has been mixed at best (Jegadeesh, Weinstein and Welch, 1993; Michaely and Shaw, 1994). This paper...

This paper investigates the effect of gender on corporate financial reporting decision-making. By focusing on firms that experience changes of CFO from male to female, we compare the firm's degree of reporting conservatism between pre- and posttransition periods. Using various measures of...

This study investigates the effect of geography on bondholders. Based on previous empirical evidence that associates information gathering costs to distance, we argue that when bondholders perceive corporate information of remote firms to be more difficult to obtain and monitor, they assign...

We find that the location of corporate headquarters significantly affects the firm's bondholders. Similar to Loughran and Schultz (2006) and others, who show that investors are better able to obtain information on nearby companies, we look at firms located in large metropolitan cities, small...

As the trend of bank consolidation activities continues to grow in the U.S. and globally, the debate on the impact of such consolidation on small business credits and activities are still inconclusive. Building on the existing research (Berger, Saunders, Scalise and Udell (1998) and Black and...

We examine how political connections impact the process of going public. Specifically, we test how political connections impact the pricing of the newly offered shares, the magnitude of underpricing, and the fixed cost of going public. Based on the experience of the newly public firms from...

This paper investigates the role of corporate boards in bank loan contracting. We find that when corporate boards are more independent, both price and non-price loan terms - e.g., interest rates, collateral, covenants and performance pricing- are more favorable and syndicated loans comprise more...

We examine how state antitakeover laws affect bondholders and the cost of debt, and report four findings. First, bonds issued by firms incorporated in takeover friendly states have significantly higher at-issue yield spreads than bonds issued by firms in states with restrictive antitakeover...

This paper uses both linear and nonlinear causality tests to reexamine the cross-autocorrelation between the returns on large and small firms. Consistent with previous results, we find that large firms lead small firms, but small firm autocorrelation, nonsynchronous trading, or a differential...