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Risk Perceptions and Corporate Financing Behavior

open access: yesFinancial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a recently developed measure of financial market risk perceptions, we show that risk perceptions affect firm‐level corporate financing behavior. Firms tend to adjust their capital structures to cater to investors' appetite for risk. When perceived risks are low, firms tend to choose more leveraged capital structures to take advantage of ...
Youngmin Choi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shareholder Activism: Affliction for Incumbent CEOs?

open access: yesFinancial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how shareholder activism shapes CEO careers by distinguishing between two competing hypotheses: discipline and reallocation. Employing a control function approach with expected mutual fund fire sales and purchases as exclusion restrictions, we analyze 3799 US campaigns from 2006 to 2018.
Jana P. Fidrmuc   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

To Grandmother's House We Go: Informal Childcare and Female Labor Mobility

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We document how childcare costs and the location of extended family influence the labor supply and mobility of US women. Women return to their home locations immediately before fertility events, suggesting that informal childcare needs may motivate home migration. Women who live near their parents have lower child earnings penalties.
Garrett Anstreicher, Joanna Venator
wiley   +1 more source

The Decentralization of Liquor Policies in Texas During the Post‐Prohibition Era

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the decentralization of liquor policies in Texas during the Post‐Prohibition era using newly collected historical legislative roll call data. By combining these data with local referendum vote shares, we analyze both legislators' and constituents' preferences on liquor policy.
Andrew Arnold, Holger Sieg
wiley   +1 more source

Who Bears the Pen? Audit Partner–Manager Report Signatures, Multilevel Accountability and Audit Quality in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Auditing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using data pertaining to China's mandatory two‐signature regime, under which a certified public accountant licensed as an audit manager can serve as an audit report signatory, we examine whether reallocating accountability within the audit engagement team is associated with audit quality.
Yanming Cao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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