We examine the effects the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation program has on recommendation performance and career outcomes of the analysts who complete the curriculum and become charterholders. For these analysts, both their recommendation performance and their chances of making the...

There is a tenuous link between market efficiency and economic efficiency in that stock prices are more informative when the information has less social value. We theoretically and empirically investigate this link in the context of CEO turnover. Our theoretical model predicts that, although the...