We examine how industry returns react to various oil shocks developed in Baumeister and Hamilton (2019) and find that oil supply shocks matter as much, if not more, as oil demand and economic activity shocks in driving industry returns. A long-short portfolio that buys (sells) industries...

We show that the implied cost of capital (ICC) and factor model-based proxies (FMPs) of cost of equity have negative (positive) association with corporate investment and external financing. ICCs show negative association with corporate investment and external financing by capturing the discount...

We evaluate the economic consequences of mutual fund advisory misconduct from 2000 to 2015. An average of 31.25% reduction in monthly fund flows occurs in one year after the misconduct. The effect is more pronounced in funds facing strong investor monitoring. Although all types of misconduct...

Investor sentiment affects stock market liquidity by affecting noise trading and irrational market makers. Previous studies have focused on this effect with the time-series variation in sentiment and liquidity. This paper utilizes firm-specific news sentiment (FSNS) to examine its effect on...