As an important breakthrough in coordinating economic, social, and ecological benefits,
green innovation has received wide attention from governments, firms, and the public …

This study examines whether sell-side equity analysts engage in “social learning” in which
their earnings forecasts for certain firms are influenced by the forecasts and outcomes of …

This paper studies the role of shared analysts, who cover the target and the acquirer, in
mergers and acquisitions outcomes. We find that deals where both firms are connected …

The transition towards environmental sustainability in China's energy sector underscores the
crucial role of digital financial inclusion and analyst attention. This study employs an …

This paper shows that analyst coverage networks (ACN) play an important role in explaining
stock return commonalities across Latin American stocks. First, pairs of stocks connected by …

By documenting information flows from analysts to covered firms, this paper provides robust
evidence that firms connected by informal networks of shared analysts exhibit greater …

Corporate finance is about understanding the determinants and consequences of the
investment and financing policies of corporations. In a standard neoclassical profit …

Using recent advances in network theory, we estimate the intra-industry volatility
connectedness for US publicly traded companies going back to the 1920s. Our volatility …

Using a comprehensive dataset of US firms for the 1988 to 2018 period, we document that
firms connected through common institutional investor holdings exhibit a substantially higher …

Using a comprehensive set of US firms over the 1990-2019 period, we examine the relation
between firms' earnings management decisions and the corporate earnings management …