Stocks appear to have investor clienteles based on their business practices and products. The variety in expressive benefits each individual receives from owning controversial stocks causes them to modify their portfolio to accommodate their beliefs. We examine the ownership of firms with social...

Unpaid chairpersons prioritize other stakeholders resulting in shareholder wealth loss. Using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2005 to 2018, we find that firms who have chairpersons that they do not directly pay, underperform counterparts with paid chairpersons. The results are robust after...

Prior to May 22, 2017, trading information displayed on certain days of the week and on days prior to market-closed holidays required investors in Chinese exchange-traded repos to infer repos' actual maturities to place orders at appropriate rates. Repo rates on these days exhibited remarkable...