This paper examines the information content and consequences of third-party voting advice that arrives as news at an interim stage in corporate proxy contests. We first document significant stock returns around announcements of proxy vote recommendations. We then develop a multiequation...

The role of race in American society is evolving driven by law-enforcement-linked Black deaths, Black Lives Matter protests, counter-protests, debates about Confederate monuments, and other race-related events. This raises questions about how changes in bias, systemic racism, and diversity...