This dissertation consists of three articles striding topics from corporate governance to asset pricing. It seeks to understand the costs and benefits of better corporate governance, and how assets such as real estate are priced. My ultimate focus is on corporate governance on both sides of the...

This supplemental appendix extends the main paper by presenting additional analyses and robustness checks. It also describes the procedure to construct the Monthly TAQ effective spread benchmark.The paper "A Simple Estimation of Bid-Ask Spreads from Daily Close, High, and Low Prices" to which...