Predicting the Critical Time of Financial Bubbles

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Detecting and predicting financial bubbles have become crucially important because of the economic significance of endogenous market crashes

Bequest and Moral Hazard in Family

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Observed bequest patterns of widely diverse societies are polarized into equigeniture (dividing bequests equally) and unigeniture (giving all to one child)

Sticky Dividends: A New Explanation

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This study proposes a generalized partial adjustment model of dividends in which managers set target dividends based on adaptively-formed earnings prospects

Training, Skill-Upgrading and Permanent Migration: Evidence from China

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The massive rural-to-urban migration is one of the most important features of China’s labor market during the past decades

Collective Behavior in Corporate Bankruptcies and Business Cycle

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We investigate collective behavior in corporate bankruptcies and its relationship with business cycle

Uncertainty, Major Investments, and Capital Structure Dynamics

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This study examines the effects of uncertainty on firms’ capital structure dynamics, finding that high-uncertainty firms have substantially lower target leverage while those firms’ leverage adjustment speeds increase only if they are over-levered

Investment Spike Financing

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This is one of the most comprehensive studies of corporate finance to date, which employs filtering techniques to distinguish between the financing of routine investments and “investment spikes ”

Economic Policy Uncertainty and Peer Effects in Corporate Investment Policy: Evidence from China

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This study investigates whether peer firms affect corporate investment policies, using accounting and stock market data of Chinese manufacturing firms over the period 1999-2013

Public Pension Privatization and Economic Volatility over the Business Cycle

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This paper examines the effects of privatizing pay-as-you-go public pensions on economic and welfare responses to aggregate productivity shocks

Product Market Competition and Value of Innovation: Evidence from US Patent Data

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This study investigates the relationship between product market competition and market value of innovation using firm-level patent data of US firms over the period 1977-2005