The authors examined the potential profitability of a strategy that exploits the post-earnings announcement drifts contingent on jump dynamics identified in stock prices around earnings announcements. With long positions in positive-jump stocks and short positions in negative-jump stocks, their...

We use a novel dataset to follow the evolution of family ownership, firm value, and firm policies for up to 25 years post IPO. Firm value, measured by Tobin’s Q, increases as family ownership decreases over time. Firms with higher family ownership invest less in R&D and have greater R&D...

This paper studies the effects of international coordination failure on resource allocations. Employing the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement as an experiment, we find that U.S. polluting firms increase their emissions and receive bank financing at lower costs after the sudden...

Applying the modulated power law process, a generalized model which is a compromise between a renewal process and a nonhomogeneous Poisson process, we find the presence of positive duration dependence in all samples, although the magnitudes vary from sample to sample. A goodness-of-fit test...