This paper examines the pre-committed payout hypothesis that firms which increase R&D investment also increase payouts in order to mitigate the information asymmetry and agency problems. We use the R&D tax reform which came into effect in 2007 in Japan as a natural experiment. We find that...

This study examines the impact of corporate environmental efforts on financial leverage and systematic risk. Specifically, this study uses the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 20) in 2014 as a natural experiment to...

This study examines dynamics among the art, Japanese land, Japanese and U.S. stock market prices during the sample period from 1976 to 1998. We find that the Japanese land prices caused both art and Japanese stock prices to co-move during the sample period. We interpret this finding as...

We examine how foreign and domestic portfolio investors, both classified into money managers, invest in Japanese firms over the sample period of 1985–1998. We propose the agency-familiarity hypothesis to explain investment behavior of these institutional investors focusing on the two...