This paper studies how economic policy uncertainty influences corporate investment for Chinese listed companies. We show that when the degree of economic policy uncertainty is higher, firms stand to lower their investment and vice versa. However, firms that have higher return on invested...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between the Index of Economic Freedom, equity market performance and its volatility. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines whether the level of economic freedom is significant for a country's stock market...

We study compensation of college chief executives from 1997 to 2004. Although presidential salaries have acquired the attention of the media, Congress, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in recent years, they are much below those of corporate CEOs. Compared with CEOs in corporations with...

Within a Markov regime-switching VAR framework, we investigate the contagion effects among the stock market, real estate market, credit default market, and energy market covering the most recent financial crisis period when markets experience regime shifts. The results demonstrate that the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between the Index of Economic Freedom, equity market performance and its volatility. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines whether the level of economic freedom is significant for a country's stock market...

Using a simple dividend model, we illustrate and synthesize the sources of stock market mispricing and excess volatility based upon two hypotheses—inflation illusion and heterogeneous beliefs. Our theoretical framework posits that equity mispricing arises when investors have subjective...

We provide a ranking of world finance research output by countries and institutions. Based upon 21 finance journals, the top five most productive countries are in the following order: U.S., U.K., Canada, Hong Kong, and Australia. We find that higher per capita GNP, English-speaking countries,...

This study examines the relation between risk and managerial ownership for a sample of life insurance companies in the United States. Evidence is found that the level of life insurance company risk is dependent on the level of managerial ownership. Specifically, as the level of managerial...

We study the trend and the author name-ordering rule in finance publication using the publication records of 21 core finance journals during the period from 1990 to 2004. We empirically model the underlying factors that affect the alphabetical ordering rule among multi-authored finance articles....