Corporate insiders frequently borrow from lending institutions and pledge their personal equity
as collateral for the loan. This borrowing, or pledging, potentially affects shareholder risk …

We examine how corporate insiders pledging their equity stakes to collateralise personal
loans influences firm cost of debt. Pledging enables managers to diversify personal holdings, …

Purpose This paper examines the relation between takeover likelihood and the documented
underperformance of distressed company stocks while exploring two competing hypotheses…

Using new data on S&P 1500 firms’ chief executive officer (CEO)‐to‐employee pay ratios
disclosed by mandate of Section 953(b) of the Dodd–Frank Act, we examine the effect of within…

Analysing a set of 200 cryptocurrencies over the period from 2015 to 2019, we document a
significant return reversal effect that holds at the daily, weekly, and monthly rebalancing …

Purpose Amid growing attention from investors, regulators and advisory firms in recent years,
this study assesses whether managers exploit private information to time share-pledge …

The objective of the report is to investigate the feasibility and reliability of additive friction stir
manufacturing of 7055 aluminum alloy. This is a technique in which multiple lap welds are …

Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare, and anise, Pimpinella anisum, are plants which have been
used as estrogenic agents for millennia. Specifically, they have been reputed to increase milk …

We investigate the determinants of exchange-traded-note (ETN) closures using the full
sample of ETNs listed in the CRSP Database. Examining a total of 356 unique ETNs between …

Swash‐groundwater interactions affect the biogeochemistry of beach aquifers and the transport
of solutes and sediment across the beachface. Improved understanding of the complex, …