2024

Jess Cornaggia, Matthew Gustafson, Jason Kotter, Kevin Pisciotta
Review of Finance, Volume 28, Issue 4, July 2024, Pages 1245–1273, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfae011

The choice to go public is arguably the most important and impactful decision firms make in their corporate lives. On their path to an IPO, firms connect with and contribute to their local community in many ways, sometimes growing to be one of the most important companies in their local economy.… Read more...

Elena Asparouhova, Peter Bossaerts, Xiaoqin Cai, Kristian Rotaru, Nitin Yadav, Wenhao Yang
Review of Finance, Volume 28, Issue 4, July 2024, Pages 1215–1244, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfae007

The study explores the impact of algorithmic trading on the emergence of bubbles in financial markets, utilizing a controlled experimental setting, and for the first time, allowing participants full control over the trading robots they choose.… Read more...

Bruce D Grundy, Sjoerd van Bekkum, Patrick Verwijmeren
Review of Finance, Volume 28, Issue 4, July 2024, Pages 1187–1213, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfae006

How does corporate debt issuance depend on sovereign debt issuance? In the US and Europe, corporate and sovereign debt issuance might be seen as substitutes, with sovereign debt issuance crowding out corporate debt issuance.… Read more...

Alexandre Garel, Arthur Romec, Zacharias Sautner, Alexander F Wagner
Review of Finance, Volume 28, Issue 4, July 2024, Pages 1151–1186, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfae010

Biodiversity, the variety of living organisms in all habitats, is deteriorating at an unprecedented and alarming rate. Given the potentially dramatic financial consequences of the loss of biodiversity, firms, investors, and financial market regulators are increasingly paying attention to the topic.… Read more...

Fresh air eases work—the effect of air quality on individual investor activity
Steffen Meyer and Michaela Pagel
Review of Finance, Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2024, Pages 1105–1149, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfae005

Globally, air pollution is linked to millions of premature deaths, and recent evidence suggests that it affects productivity, cognitive function, and performance in physically demanding jobs.… Read more...

The saliency of the CEO pay ratio
Audra Boone, Austin Starkweather, Joshua T White
Review of Finance, Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2024, Pages 1059–1104, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfad039

The CEO pay ratio disclosure became effective in the U.S. in 2018. Although CEO pay disclosure was required, revealing the median employee’s salary and the corresponding ratio was not.… Read more...

External financing, technological changes, and employees
E Han Kim, Yuan Li, Yao Lu, Xinzheng Shi
Review of Finance, Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2024, Pages 985–1025, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfad040

The choice to go public is arguably the most important and impactful decision firms make in their corporate lives.… Read more...

Credit risk, debt overhang, and the life cycle of callable bonds
Bo Becker, Murillo Campello, Viktor Thell, Dong Yan
Review of Finance, Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2024, Pages 945–985, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfae001

In this paper, we propose that callable bonds may reduce the debt overhang otherwise created by corporate leverage.… Read more...

When passive funds affect prices: evidence from volatility and commodity ETFs
Karamfil Todorov
Review of Finance, Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2024, Pages 831–863, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfad038

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This paper studies ETF price impact in the most ETF-dominated asset classes: volatility (VIX) and commodities.… Read more...