Existing studies usually investigate the effects of Trump’s trade war on U.S. financial markets by the event-study method. We take an alternative approach by integrating trade war-related news into one single "trade war shock" based on a structural vector autoregression model identified via...

We find that quasi-indexer ownership is negatively associated with the ratio of non-audit service fees to total fees paid to the audit firm performing the audit service and with the likelihood of paying the audit firm more non-audit service fees than audit service fees. Using the annual Russell...

As the proxy for expected return, the implied cost of capital (ICC) is subject to a mispricing-driven measurement error. For undervalued stocks, the mispricing-driven measurement error is positive and increases with the degree of undervaluation while for overvalued stocks, the mispricing-driven...

Contrary to the financial distress premium notion, the stocks of financially distressed firms comove least. Financially distressed firms are characterized by high valuation uncertainty and information and arbitrage frictions. Therefore, their stocks are prone to mispricing and their stock price...