Limited attention and financial decision-making

A Nekrasov, SH Teoh, S Wu - Handbook of financial decision …, 2023 - elgaronline.com
In the current world of the Big Data revolution, where a vast amount of information is
available to investors, attention is a scarce resource. The time, effort, and skill required to …

Work‐from‐home and the risk of securities misconduct

D Cumming, C Firth, J Gathergood… - European Financial …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the wake of the global pandemic, a challenge for CEOs and boards is to set a stakeholder‐
acceptable organizational balance between remote and traditional office working. However …

Going the extra mile: What taxi rides tell us about the long-hour culture in finance

D Okat, EV Vasudevan - Management Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We analyze banks'“protected-weekend” policies that restrict junior bankers from working
during weekends. We use taxi rides from bank addresses in New York City to infer bankers' …

All in a day's work: What do we learn from Analysts' Bloomberg Usage?

A Ben-Rephael, B Carlin, Z Da… - Available at SSRN …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We use minute-by-minute Bloomberg online status data to characterize two important
dimensions of sell-side equity analysts' work habits: we estimate the average workday …

Gender Bias and Crowd-Sourced Financial Information

V Bhagwat, C Dim, S Shirley, J Stark - Available at SSRN 4669864, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
The capacity to aggregate information from diverse perspectives has positioned social
finance forums as a potent source of signals that shape investors' beliefs. We study the …

Removing barriers: How online visits boost female analysts' participation

J Wang, C Wu - Accounting & Finance, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the impact of remote meetings on the participation of female analysts
in corporate visits. We find that online visits significantly increase female analysts' …

Security Analysis and the Collection of Hard and Soft Information

We use minute-by-minute Bloomberg online status microdata during 2017-2021 to directly
study how hard and soft information collection affects equity analyst performance. Collection …

The Real Effect of Sociopolitical Racial/Ethnic Animus: Mutual Fund Manager Performance During the AAPI Hate

V Agarwal, W Jiang, Y Luo, H Zou - Ethnic Animus: Mutual Fund …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract During the unexpected 2020-2021 “AAPI Hate,” mutual funds with female managers
perceived as of East Asian descent (the primary targets) experienced performance …

Do Tougher Immigration Enforcement Policies Inadvertently Hurt Women Inventors?

F Du, Y Li, JJ Wang - Available at SSRN 4976289, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper studies the effect of immigration enforcement on the gender gap in innovation,
using the staggered rollout of the Secure Communities (SC) program from 2008 to 2013. We …

When Analysts Cannot Conduct Site Visits

Y Du, D Guo, B Qi, W Wang - Available at SSRN 4781389, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
In this study, we explore how disruptions to analysts' on-site visits influence their information
acquisition and forecast precision. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find a …