This study examines how institutional investor investment horizons impact stock price crash risk for China's A-share firms from 2007 to 2019. Long-term investments by institutions significantly mitigate risk by curbing managerial myopia, enhancing transparency, and improving accountability, thus...

This paper investigates the impact on the risk of a crash in the stock price (SPCR) of a hometown connection between a firm's chief executive officer (CEO) and suppliers. Using manually collected data on CEOs' hometown connections among Chinese A-share companies (A-shares, or RMB common shares,...

Rollover risk imposes market discipline on banks' risk-taking behavior but it can be socially costly. I present a two-sided model in which a bank simultaneously lends to a firm and borrows from the short-term funding market. When the bank is capital constrained, uncertainty in asset quality and...