This thesis includes three essays in corporate finance and corporate governance. In the first
paper, we investigate the redistribution effects among firm stakeholders of increased …

This thesis presents three studies on managerial opportunism in hedging-related activities.
Managers have incentives to engage in firm-level and individual-level hedging activities …

This paper examines the effect of shareholder litigation rights on firm-level employment. I
rely on the staggered passage of Universal Demand (UD) laws to establish a causal effect …