Corporate governance research indicates that corporate boards of directors may be overly beholden to management, which can be detrimental to firm value creation. Drawing upon agency theory and the governance law literature, we examine the effects of a new SEC rule designed to lessen managerial...

We show analytically and empirically that the positive abnormal returns from Betting-Against-Beta (BAB) – a beta-neutral portfolio long in low beta stocks and short in high beta stocks – are consistent with market segmentation due to costly information acquisition, as in Merton (1987)....