Facilitating Entry through Leasing

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We study how leasing plays a novel role in improving total factor productivity (TFP) by facilitating entry and technology adoption As a form of more collateralizable financing, leasing provides additional nancing for investment required in a productive

Culture, Religion, and Short-Sale Constraints

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We find that institutional investors’ local culture of religiosity influences their stock lending decisions and short-sell constraints Firms with higher ownerships by blockholders located in more religious counties are associated with higher utilizatio

Media Negativity on Foreign Countries and International Asset Allocation

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We investigate the relationship between media negativity on foreign countries and flows to country specific interna

Learning, Price Discovery, and Macroeconomic Announcements

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​We document that the duration of investors’ information processing time improves the price discovery efficiency following public macroeconomic announcements

Forecasting Stock Returns: The Role of New Global Market Integration Indices

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This research examines the usefulness of new proposed equity premium predictors through their superior out-of-sample forecasting gains relative to the historical average return method and currently well-known spillover indices (Diebold and Yilmaz, 2009)

Adaptive Robust Capacity Control with Adjustable Regret

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A robust single-leg capacity control method based on adjustable regret is proposed to address the practical needs

Affirmative Action in Two Dimensions: A Multi-Period Apportionment Problem

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In many settings, affirmative action policies apply simultaneously at two levels, for instance, at university and

Taxation and Entrepreneurship in the United States

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This paper studies the effects of income taxation on entrepreneurship, empirically and in astructural macro model

Peer Pressure and Moral Hazard: Evidence from Retail Banking Investment Advisors

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It is generally believed that pressure from peers induces employees to improve their efficiency and performance, b

Over-Commitment in M&A Valuation Adjustment Mechanism Agreements

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AbstractWith hand-collected data on Chinese M&A agreements between 2010 and 2019, this paper reveals that some tar