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