Leon Zolotoy

University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School

200 Leicester Street

Carlton, Victoria 3053 3186

Australia

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1.

Stock Liquidity and Stock Price Crash Risk

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 01 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2016
Xin Chang, Yangyang Chen and Leon Zolotoy
Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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Stock liquidity; Crash risk; Short-termism; Bad news hoarding

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Board Gender Diversity and Firm Value in Times of Crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 28 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2022
Farida Akhtar, Don O'Sullivan, Madhu Veeraraghavan and Leon Zolotoy
Macquarie University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, T.A. PAI Management Institute, Finance Area and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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Board gender diversity, Abnormal returns, Crisis, COVID-19

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Media Coverage and IPO Pricing Around the World

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 24 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2019
Yangyang Chen, Abhinav Goyal, Madhu Veeraraghavan and Leon Zolotoy
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy, University of Birmingham, T.A. PAI Management Institute, Finance Area and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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Media coverage, IPO pricing, information asymmetry

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Does CEO Overconfidence Affect Workplace Safety?

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 24 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 09 May 2022
Yangyang Chen, Emmanuel Ofosu, Madhu Veeraraghavan and Leon Zolotoy
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy, T.A. PAI Management Institute, Finance Area and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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CEO overconfidence, workplace safety, injury rates

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Stock Liquidity and Corporate Tax Avoidance

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2017
Yangyang Chen, Rui Ge, Henock Louis and Leon Zolotoy
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy, Shenzhen University & Audencia Business School, Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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Stock Liquidity, Tax Avoidance, Agency Conflicts

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CEO Early-Life Disaster Experience and Stock Price Crash Risk

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 31 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2021
Yangyang Chen, Qingliang Fan, Xin Yang and Leon Zolotoy
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - School of Accounting and Finance and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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CEO background characteristics; Disaster experience; Stock price crash risk; Bad news hoarding

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The Impact of Managerial Mood on Public Firms’ Decisions: Evidence from Corporate Tax Avoidance

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 10 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2019
Yangyang Chen, Rui Ge, Jeffrey Pittman, Madhu Veeraraghavan and Leon Zolotoy
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy, Shenzhen University & Audencia Business School, Memorial University, T.A. PAI Management Institute, Finance Area and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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Weather; Managerial Mood; Tax Avoidance

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Rank-and-File Employee Stock Options and Workplace Safety

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 05 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2022
Yangyang Chen, Emmanuel Ofosu, Madhu Veeraraghavan and Leon Zolotoy
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy, T.A. PAI Management Institute, Finance Area and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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Rank-and-file employee stock options; workplace safety; employee injury rates

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Benchmark Replication Portfolio Strategies

Journal of Asset Management Vol. 14, 2, 95–110, 24th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2011 Paper
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2013
Paskalis Glabadanidis and Leon Zolotoy
Essential Services Commission of South Australia and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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Optimal Portfolio Weights, Benchmarking

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Executive Equity Risk-Taking Incentives and Firm's Choice of Debt Structure

Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 19 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2021
Yangyang Chen, Iftekhar Hasan, Walid Saffar and Leon Zolotoy
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy, Fordham University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - School of Accounting and Finance and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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Executive equity incentives; Vega; Bank debt; Debt structure

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Global Board Reforms and the Pricing of IPOs

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 30 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2021
Yangyang Chen, Abhinav Goyal and Leon Zolotoy
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy, University of Birmingham and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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Global board reforms; IPO underpricing; Corporate governance

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Aggregate Earnings News and Stock Market Returns: The Good, the Bad and the State-Dependent

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 26 Jun 2012
Leon Zolotoy, James R. Frederickson and John D. Lyon
University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School, Melbourne Business School and The University of Melbourne, Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems
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aggregate earnings, stock market, discount-rate, cash-flows, state-dependence

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Earnings Announcements, Aggregate Earnings, and Individual-Firm Stock Returns: A Signal Extraction Perspective

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 17 Jan 2012
James R. Frederickson, John D. Lyon and Leon Zolotoy
Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne, Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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aggregate earnings, signal extraction, systemic component, persistence

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Terrorist Attacks, Investor Sentiment, and the Pricing of Initial Public Offerings

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 30 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2020
Yangyang Chen, Abhinav Goyal, Madhu Veeraraghavan and Leon Zolotoy
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy, University of Birmingham, T.A. PAI Management Institute, Finance Area and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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terrorist attacks, investor sentiment, IPO pricing

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Time–Varying Dynamics and Asymmetric Effects of the Fama–French Factor Betas

25th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2012
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 28 Aug 2012
Petko S. Kalev and Leon Zolotoy
RoZetta Institute and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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asymmetry, economic value, Fama–French model, information shocks, systematic risk

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Dispersion of Beliefs, Stock Prices and the Earnings Surprise Measures - A Generalized Approach

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 29 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2009
Leon Zolotoy
University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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earnings announcements, dispersion of opinions, stock prices, post-earnings announcement drift

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Anti-Collusion Leniency Programs and the Pricing of IPOs: International Evidence

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 09 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2022
Huu Nhan Duong, Abhinav Goyal and Leon Zolotoy
Monash University - Department of Banking and Finance, University of Birmingham and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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Leniency legislations, IPO underpricing, Information asymmetry, Agency frictions

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Local Religious Norms, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Firm Value

Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 09 Feb 2019
Leon Zolotoy, Don O'Sullivan and Yangyang Chen
University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy
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Do Corporate Pension Plans Affect Audit Pricing?

Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 05 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2017
Yangyang Chen, Rui Ge and Leon Zolotoy
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy, Shenzhen University & Audencia Business School and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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Pension Plans, Audit Pricing, Audit Effort, Audit Risk, Earnings Management.

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Litigation Risk and IPO Underpricing: Evidence from Federal Judge Ideology

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 04 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2022
Yangyang Chen, Abhinav Goyal, Madhu Veeraraghavan and Leon Zolotoy
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Accountancy, University of Birmingham, T.A. PAI Management Institute, Finance Area and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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Litigation risk, IPO underpricing, federal judge ideology

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The Spillover Effects of Accounting Scandals in Business Groups

Posted: 10 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2022
Guilong Cai, Rui Ge, Jeffrey Pittman and Leon Zolotoy
Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Shenzhen University & Audencia Business School, Memorial University and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School

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Business groups, accounting scandals, spillover effects, agency conflicts.

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Coskewness Risk Decomposition, Covariation Risk, and Intertemporal Asset Pricing

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Posted: 11 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2019
Petko S. Kalev, Konark Saxena and Leon Zolotoy
RoZetta Institute, University of New South Wales and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School

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Asset pricing; coskewness risk; cash flow news; discount rate news; covariation risk