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The JFQA hosted a virtual symposium on April 30th 2021 featuring eight high-quality papers addressing different subjects related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch a recording of each session here.

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FinTechs and the Market for Financial Analysis
Jillian Grennan and Roni Michaely

"Hundreds of equity market intelligence financial technology firms (FinTechs) have formed in the last decade. We assemble novel data to describe their capabilities, users, and consequences. Our data suggest that these FinTechs i) aggregate many data sources, including nontraditional ones (e.g., Twitter, blogs), and synthesize such data using artificial intelligence to make investment recommendations, and ii) change Internet users’ information discovery by serving as substitutes for traditional information providers."

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Corporate Innovation: Do Diverse Boards Help?
Heng An, Carl R. Chen, Qun Wu and Ting Zhang

"We find that corporate innovation is positively related to board diversity as measured by a multidimensional index. The benefit of board diversity is more pronounced for firms with more complex operations, more experienced boards, and stronger external governance, suggesting that diverse boards have superior advising capacity. We find evidence to suggest that firms with diverse boards engage in more exploratory innovations and develop new technology in unfamiliar areas. As a result, they create a larger number of both most-cited and uncited patents. Finally, of the six different aspects of board diversity, professional diversity matters the most for corporate innovation."

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Board Gender Diversity and Corporate Innovation: International Evidence
Dale Griffin, Kai Li and Ting Xu

"Using a novel database of firm patents and board characteristics across 45 countries, we examine both within- and cross-country determinants of board gender diversity and its relation to corporate innovation. Boards are more likely to include women in countries with narrower gender gaps, higher female labor market participation, and less masculine cultures. Firms with gender diverse boards have more patents and novel patents, and a higher innovative efficiency. Further analyses suggest that gender diverse boards are associated with more failure-tolerant and long-term chief executive officer (CEO) incentives, more innovative corporate cultures, and more diverse inventors, characteristics that are conducive to an improved innovative performance."

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'Do Public and Private Firms Behave Differently? An Examination of Investment in the Chemical Industry'
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'The Real Effect of Smoking Bans: Evidence from Corporate Innovation'

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'CEOs and the Product Market: When are Powerful CEOs Beneficial?'

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'The Real Effect of Smoking Bans: Evidence from Corporate Innovation'

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'Does Trading Anonymously Enhance Liquidity?'

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'Liquidity Transformation and Financial Fragility: Evidence from Funds of Hedge Funds'

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