In Chinese culture, the digit 8 (4) is considered lucky (unlucky). We find that this numerological superstition has a significant impact across China’s stock, bond, foreign exchange, and commodity markets, affecting asset prices in both the primary and secondary markets. The superstition...

The effects of sentiment should be strongest during times of heightened valuation uncertainty. As such, we document a significant amplifying role for market uncertainty in the relation between sentiment and aggregate investment. A one-standard-deviation increase in uncertainty more than doubles...

In this paper, we establish the significance and effects of initial public offer (IPO) offer price ranges on subscription, initial trading, and post-IPO ownership structures. The primary market in India provides a unique setting for estimating the effect of various initial public offer (IPO)...

This study investigates whether firm's management uses split ratios to target low price anchors in order to impact post-split ownership. We report anchoring bias for the lowest ranges of prices in the equity market and find specific price anchors among individual investors in the secondary...

Predicted stock issuers (PSIs) are firms with expected “high-investment and low-profit” (HILP) profiles that earn unusually low returns. We carefully document important features of PSI firms to provide insights on the economic mechanism behind the HILP phenomenon. Top-PSI firms are...

We study the link between a previously neglected form of intangible asset—country reputation—and corporate sales. By exploiting variation in nationalities of foreign victims in local terror attacks, we detect unanticipated distortions in reputations of local countries in foreign countries...

This paper examines how information acquisition through social media affects venture capital (VC) investments into entrepreneurial startup firms. We collect a unique data set from Twitter API to measure the impact of owned social media (OSM) and earned social media (ESM) of portfolio companies...

In this paper, we establish the significance and effects of initial public offer (IPO) offer price ranges on subscription, initial trading, and post-IPO ownership structures. The primary market in India provides a unique setting for estimating the effect of various initial public offer (IPO)...

We examine the effects of CEO neuroticism on corporate policies for cash holdings. We hand-collect the tweets by CEOs at S&P 1500 companies to measure their neuroticism. We find that firms with relatively neurotic CEOs hold more cash than other CEOs. Using two crises as shocks to corporate...

The animated discourse on corporate social responsibility towards stakeholders in the last two years, particularly as embodied through the terms ESG, corporate purpose and stakeholderism (which will be used in this article interchangeably) had reached a turning point even before the COVID-19...