Using a sample of US IPOs from 2000–2019, we show that IPOs with at least one female
director experience significantly greater underpricing on the first trading day. The effect is not …

ABSTRACT I examine whether telecommuting, a work arrangement in which employees do
not travel to a workplace, affects the acquisition of new information in an environment where …

Abstract The US Migration Fear Index fluctuated substantially during 2009-2021, especially
during the campaign and early administration of President Trump. During quarters of low …

In a series of influential studies, McKinsey (2015, 2018, 2020) report a statistically significant
positive relation between the industry-adjusted EBIT margin of global samples of large …

Motivated by prior literature on organizational identification and 23 semistructured interviews
with a variety of US audit partners and directors, we examine whether the gender and ethnic …

We examine the influence of a local audit practice leadership climate fostering gender and
ethnic diversity on retention of local audit practice professionals and office-level audit …

We reassess whether and to what degree the hiring, development, and promotion decisions
of S&P 500® companies have led to misrepresentation of and bias against their minority …

Analyzing over 97,000 price target valuations from 2005-2020, we find analysts' judgments
reflect over four times more pessimism per dollar of negative earnings news for Non-White …

We measure the racial/ethnic densities (RAEDs) of executives in a random sample of 523
US public companies and the S&P 500®. When we calibrate the RAEDs of executives as a …

This Ph. D. dissertation consists of three independent chapters in behavioral finance and
corporate finance. The first chapter examines whether and how ethnicity similarity between …