Senior Fellows/Fellows

Why Does Working from Home Vary Across Countries and People?

Pablo ZARATE, Mathias DOLLS, Steven J. DAVIS, Nicholas A. BLOOM, Jose Maria BARRERO, Cevat Giray AKSOY
We use two surveys to assess why work from home (WFH) varies so much across countries and people. A measure of cultural individualism accounts for about one-third of the cross-country variation in WFH rates. Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US score highly on individualism and WFH rates, whereas A...
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Accounting, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2017

Why Do Publicly Listed Firms Evade Taxes? Evidence from China

Bin KE, Yao ZHANG, Travis CHOW, Hongqi YUAN
Taking advantage of the mandatory disclosure of detected corporate tax evasions in China, we examine why publicly listed firms evade taxes. Different from most prior studies that focus on corporate income tax avoidance, we consider tax evasions related to both income taxes and non-income taxes. We a...
Keywords: tax avoidance, Tax evasion, China, SOE
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Investment Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2016

Why Do Option Prices Predict Stock Returns? The Role of Price Pressure in the Stock Market

Luis GONCALVES-PINTO, Allaudeen HAMEED, Thijs VAN DER HEIJDEN, Yichao ZHU, Bruce GRUNDY
The distance between option-implied and traded stock prices (DOTS) predicts future stock returns. A trading strategy based on DOTS yields an alpha of 85 basis points on the day after portfolio formation. We show that DOTS is strongly related to return reversals, order imbalances, and transaction cos...
Keywords: Price Pressure, Put-Call Parity, return predictability, Informed Trading
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

Why Do Option Prices Predict Stock Returns

Luis GONCALVES-PINTO, Allaudeen HAMEED, Thijs VAN DER HEIJDEN, Yichao ZHU
Disagreement between the stock and options markets about the stock’s value can reflect both informed trading in options and temporary price pressure in stocks. We document that the dis-agreement is strongly related to return reversals, order imbalances, and illiquidity in stocks, and weakly relat...
Keywords: Price Pressure, Put-Call Parity, return predictability, Informed Trading
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Investment Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2014

Who are the Sentiment Traders? Evidence from the Cross-section of Stock Returns and Demand

Laura STARKS, Luke DEVAULT, Richard SIAS
Recent work suggests that sentiment traders shift from safer to more speculative stocks when sentiment increases. Given that the market clearing condition requires a buyer for every seller, we exploit these cross-sectional patterns and changes in share ownership to test whether investor sentiment me...
Keywords: Stock Returns, sentiment, demand shocks, mispricing
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