Feng Jiang
University at Buffalo
25 Papers
15 Citations
Feng Jiang is an academic researcher from University at Buffalo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Debt & Executive compensation. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 25 publications. Previous affiliations of Feng Jiang include State University of New York System.
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Papers
The role of investment banker directors in M&A
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how directors with investment banking experience affect firms' acquisition behavior and find that firms with investment bankers on the board have a higher probability of making acquisitions.
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Analyst career concerns, effort allocation, and firms information environment
TL;DR: Cohen et al. as discussed by the authors found that an analyst makes more accurate, frequent, and informative earnings forecasts and recommendations for firms ranked higher within her portfolio based on proxies for importance to institutions.
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Earthly Reward to the Religious: Religiosity and the Costs of Public and Private Debt
TL;DR: This paper found that a firm's culture, specifically, its religiosity, affects its cost of debt and that firms in higher-religiosity counties have higher credit ratings and lower debt costs.
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Hometown Biased Acquisitions
TL;DR: This paper found that companies are over twice as likely to acquire targets located in the states of their CEOs' childhood homes than similar targets domiciled elsewhere, suggesting that CEOs acquire private home-state targets for their own benefits.
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The Effect of Labor Unions on CEO Compensation
TL;DR: This article found evidence that labor unions affect chief executive officer (CEO) compensation and reported that curbing CEO compensation mitigates the chance of a labor strike, thus providing a rationale for firms to pay CEOs less when facing strong unions.