This paper provides a quantitative perspective on Gene Fama's influence on the scholarly community. He has more than 140,000 Google cites while the median number of citations for the Fellows of the American Finance Association is 32,792. Gene Fama has published highly-cited papers in six...

A growing body of evidence concludes that common ownership caused cooperation among firms to increase and competition to decrease. We take a closer look at four approaches used to identify these effects. We find that the effects the literature has attributed to common ownership are caused by...

We study the lobbying choices of firms that invest in green innovation. Using a novel method to determine the direction of a firm’s lobbying efforts, we find that green innovators are equally likely to lobby in favor of green or brown legislative agendas. To understand why firms’ lobbying...