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Biodiversity and Risk in the Financial Sector (2024)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (in press). Biodiversity and Risk in the Financial Sector. Journal of sustainable finance and accounting,

The worldwide loss of biodiversity is an extremely serious problem. The economic costs involved are similar, if not larger, than those related to climate change. This problem is now being addressed with some urgency by governmental and inter-govern... Read More about Biodiversity and Risk in the Financial Sector.

Managerial overconfidence and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from primary and secondary data (2023)
Journal Article
Dao, T. T. N., Guney, Y., & Hudson, R. (2023). Managerial overconfidence and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from primary and secondary data. Research in international business and finance, 65, Article 101943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2023.101943

The corporate finance literature argues that overconfident managers tend to hold less cash, and this leads to a significant deviation from optimal cash levels. We analyse the impact of executive overconfidence on the corporate cash holdings of listed... Read More about Managerial overconfidence and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from primary and secondary data.

Engaged ETFs and firm performance (2023)
Journal Article
El Kalak, I., Hudson, R., & Kemal Tosun, O. (2023). Engaged ETFs and firm performance. European Financial Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/eufm.12459

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have often tracked indices and charged low fees so their incentives to improve firm performance are questionable although little empirical work has investigated this issue. Theoretically, however, we expect firms to perfo... Read More about Engaged ETFs and firm performance.

Better ways to test for herding (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, J., & Hudson, R. (2022). Better ways to test for herding. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2707

In this article, we outline problems with the standard test for herding developed by Chang, Cheng and Kohrana (2000), subsequently called the CCK test, which is based on the proposition that the cross-sectional absolute deviation of stock returns (CS... Read More about Better ways to test for herding.

How female directors help firms to attain optimal cash holdings (2022)
Journal Article
Tosun, O. K., El Kalak, I., & Hudson, R. (2022). How female directors help firms to attain optimal cash holdings. International review of financial analysis, 80, Article 102034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102034

Is female board representation helpful for firms attaining optimal cash holdings? We address this question using data on 1163 US-listed firms for 2000‐–2017. We show that if there are more female directors on firm boards, ceteris paribus, there is no... Read More about How female directors help firms to attain optimal cash holdings.

Evidence of herding behaviour in stock markets (2021)
Thesis
Wang, J. Evidence of herding behaviour in stock markets. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224272

This thesis investigates herding behaviour among major world stock markets from 2002 to 2018. It also studies the herding behaviour at sector level from 2001 to 2020. In the first chapter, we introduce the background and motivation for this study. In... Read More about Evidence of herding behaviour in stock markets.

Naval Disasters, World War Two and the British Stock Market (2021)
Journal Article
Hudson, R., & Urquhart, A. (2022). Naval Disasters, World War Two and the British Stock Market. Research in international business and finance, 59, Article 101556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2021.101556

This paper studies investor sentiment by examining the impact on the British stock market of naval disasters. Since the British Empire was a world power and its navy was held in great regard, Britain was dependent on control of the sea for survival d... Read More about Naval Disasters, World War Two and the British Stock Market.

Economic policy uncertainty and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (2021)
Journal Article
Gregoriou, A., Nguyen, B. D., Nguyen, T. D., Le, H., & Hudson, R. (2021). Economic policy uncertainty and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. International review of financial analysis, 78, Article 101911. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2021.101911

We examine the impact of policy uncertainty on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Using a sample of 23 countries worldwide over the period from 2003 to 2016, we provide evidence that when a country has high policy uncertainty, the volume o... Read More about Economic policy uncertainty and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.