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' …

We show that peer effects influence corporate investment decisions. Using a sample of
China's listed firms from 1999 to 2012, we show that a one standard deviation increase in …

Gender equality is the future towards which society and companies have to move, and it is
thus essential to know what efforts organisations are making. In this paper, we analyse the …

The question of why some companies pay fewer taxes than others is a widely investigated
topic of interest. One of the well‐known explanations is a phenomenon called tax avoidance …

This paper investigates the role of peer effects in the employee welfare policies of
organizations. Using US panel data for a sample of 11,451 firm‐year observations from …

This paper examines the effect of peers on a firm's research and development (R&D) policy.
We show that firms do not make R&D decisions in isolation, and that industry dynamics play …

This study examines the impact of tenure of independent directors on analyst following, and
the moderating role of institutional ownership between tenure of independent directors and …

This paper investigates how industry peer firms influence the voluntary disclosure strategies
of individual firms. Our 2SLS regressions on an empirical sample of management earnings …

Working capital management requires careful attention from corporate managers because it
plays an important role in corporate stability. The social belongingness of managers induced …

With the public pressure increasing, increasingly more number of studies explore how
managers respond to outer pressures by using the environmental disclosure tool. However …