The paper reviews the growing literature on peer effects in finance from theoretical and
empirical viewpoints. In particular, we assess the importance of peer behavior on firms' …

This paper investigates the local peer effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR). We
find that a firm's CSR engagement comoves with that of other firms headquartered nearby …

Different from extant literature on peer effects within industries or locations, this study aims to
investigate whether and why the R&D investment of a focal firm is influenced by that of …

Using US-listed firms from 2000 to 2015 as a sample, we report a strong enhancing effect of
industry peers' corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance on focal firms' CSR …

This paper examines the role of peer firm disclosures in shaping corporate research and
development (R&D) investments. Drawing on models of two‐stage R&D races, I hypothesize …

This study uses a unique dataset that separates tax nonaudit services (NAS) into tax
planning and compliance NAS to examine how audit quality is affected by these two types of …

With increasingly social attention on environmental issues, more enterprises join in the
environmental corporate social responsibility activities (thereafter as ECSR), however, there …

This paper develops a three-period theoretical model of corporate investment decision-
making to illustrate the impact of peer effects on corporate financialization and the influence …

This study investigates the influence of former CEO directors on the executive-employee pay
gap. We find that former CEO directors significantly increase the executive-employee pay …

The Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model is used to extract the text themes of newspaper
news and construct the Chinese Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) Index. On this basis …