Using a propensity-score matched sample and a difference-in-differences research design, we find that stock price crash risk increases after a firm voluntarily incorporates clawback provisions in executive officers' compensation contracts. This heightened crash risk is concentrated in adopters...

We examine investment banks' strategic entry and market share gain in the new China H-share IPO (HIPO) market since 1993. Investment banks would have the incentive in initial years to obtain the HIPO business by low balling, i.e., providing high offer prices to the issuer, leading to a lower...

By employing two alternative measures of fundamental value, we re-examine the value relevance of accounting information over time. Consistent with some recent studies (e.g. Dontoh et al. 2007), we do not find evidence on the temporal decline in R-squares of conventional value-relevance...

The scarcity of suitable proxies for asymmetric information has impeded empirical research from providing reliable evidence on whether information risk shapes equity pricing. In re-examining this unresolved question, we rely on firms' geographic distance from financial centers to gauge...