This paper studies the relationship between investor protection, financial risk sharing and income inequality. In the presence of market frictions, better protection makes investors more willing to take on entrepreneurial risk while lending to firms. This implies lower cost of external finance...

This paper belongs to the growing body of the ?Law and finance) literature based on timeseries study. It carries out an empirical investigation of the role of corporate governance in financial development. We focus on French corporate governance reforms in order to examine whether these reforms...

(VF)Cet article propose d’évaluer les relations entre les réformes en matière de gouvernance d’entreprise et la réorganisation du système financier en France. L’objectif est de discuter la thèse selon laquelle il existe une relation forte et stable entre tradition juridique, niveau...

In the nineties, average firm size decreased, organizations decentralized, and workers preferences shifted from large to small firms. Our model identifies the economic forces behind this trend. Small firms with little capital risk are subject to risk shifting. They realize more of their...

Objective: The objective of the article is to empirically investigates the role played by financial development in determining the relationship between working capital financing and firms' performance. Research Design & Methods: Employing data of publicly listed manufacturing firms in five ASEAN...

This paper employs generalized methods of moment (GMM) to analyze the enterprise data set collected from the General Statistics Office in the period 2005-2018 to provide insight on the influence of financial development on business growth: the case of the Southern Key Economic Zone (SKEZ). The...

This paper investigates the intergenerational mobility with regard to people's decision to work in the U.S. financial industry over the last 47 years. I present evidence that children of fathers who worked in the financial industry during their childhood are about 8 percentage points more likely...

This paper develops and compares two theories of strategic behavior of professional forecasters. The first theory posits that forecasters compete in a forecasting contest with pre-specified rules. In equilibrium of a winner-take-all contest, forecasts are excessively differentiated. According to...

Professional experts offer advice with the objective of appearing well informed. Their ability is evaluated on the basis of the advice given and of the realized state of the world. This situation is modeled as a reputational cheap-talk game in which the expert receives a signal of continuously...