Are firms' financial disclosure decisions affected by executive compensation at other firms? We find that a CEO's pay gap relative to the highest CEO pay among industry peers, defined as industry tournament incentives, can lead to distortions in corporate financial disclosures. Our analyses show...

This paper studies an optimal investment and consumption problem for an individual whose employment state is driven by an inhomogeneous Markov chain. We consider two types of individuals distinguished by whether they take the risk of unemployment into consideration when making decisions to...

This paper studies the optimal investment and benefit adjustment problem for a collective DC pension plan under longevity trend. We assume that the mortality hazard rate is a function of age and time, which extends the Makeham's Law and can describe the longevity trend. The contribution rate is...