The effect of information on market activity: Evidence from vehicle recalls

I Bijgaart, D Cerruti - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
We evaluate the effect of vehicle recalls on vehicle transactions in the second-hand market.
Using a rich data set of Dutch vehicle registrations, we exploit the quasiexperimental …

Cultural norms and corporate fraud: Evidence from the Volkswagen scandal

I Hasan, F Noth, L Tonzer - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2023 - Elsevier
We examine a corporate governance role of local culture via its impact on consumer
behavior following corporate scandals. Our proxy for culture is the presence of local …

Country Image and Consumer Choice: The Case of the Beer Market during the COVID‐19 Pandemic

IK Kim - The Journal of Industrial Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, I exploit the exogenous shock to China's image in the COVID‐19 pandemic
era and study the impact of country image on consumer choice in the South Korean beer …

[PDF][PDF] Essays on Trade, Pollution, Innovation and Firm Performance

Y Wang - 2023 - ecommons.cornell.edu
In markets with information frictions, quality shocks about one firm's products may impose an
externality on other firms selling similar products. In such settings, when an incident …

Does it pay to be a reputable company? Insights from the instant noodles market

Y Hong, IK Kim - Insights from the instant noodles market …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper empirically examines the extent to which enhancing a corporate image through
diverse corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities affects consumer choices and firm …

Spillovers in the Charitable Market: Evidence from Reputation Shocks

D Xu - Available at SSRN 4206456, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper provides novel evidence on the spillover effect of negative reputation shocks
affecting a charity on donations to other charities. I identify negative reputation shocks to …

Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India

V Tandel, S Gandhi, A Nanda… - The Case of Housing …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
What is the impact of mandatory disclosures of quality on market outcomes? Does impact
differ across sub-markets and income groups? We answer these questions in the context of …

The Effects of Immigration on Native Employment—Evidence from Isolated and Integrated Ethnic Enclaves in Germany

A Rahman, I Kukaev - Available at SSRN 4837321 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper investigates how labor markets adjust to influxes of immigrants over the short to
medium run by taking into account the linguistic heterogeneity of ethnic enclaves. We …

Collective Reputations, the Trust Premium, and Corporate Misconduct

K Chan, DR Kong, TC Lin - Available at SSRN 3874545, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
We examine the relationship between collective country reputations and foreign stock
returns following corporate scandal news. We find that investors punish not only a focal …

Three Essays in Financial Economics

SU Gadgil - 2022 - escholarship.org
In Chapter 1, we investigate how price discovery in the credit default swap (CDS) market has
been impacted by regulation implemented since the Global Financial Crisis. We find that …