Arthur Petit-Romec

SKEMA Business School, Université Côte D'Azur · Finance

We explore the effects of online customer ratings on financial policy. Using a large sample of Parisian restaurants, we find a positive and economically significant relationship between customer ratings and restaurant debt. We use the locally exogenous variations in customer ratings resulting from the rounding of scores in regression discontinuity...

We construct a distraction measure based on extreme industry returns to gauge whether analysts’ attention is away from certain stocks under coverage. We find that temporarily distracted analysts make less accurate forecasts, revise forecasts less frequently, and publish less informative forecast revisions, relative to undistracted analysts. Further...

This paper examines the voting behavior of women-led mutual funds. We document four main stylized facts. First, women-led mutual funds are more likely to support environmental and social (ES) proposals, consistent with stronger pro-social preferences. Their voting support is even more pronounced for ES proposals explicitly related to ES risks, cons...

We examine the relationship between institutional ownership and bank capital. Using a large sample of U.S. banks, we show that banks with greater institutional ownership operate with substantially higher capital ratios. The results are robust to controlling for standard determinants of bank capital structure, including market- and accounting-based...

L’ISR est aujourd’hui bien implanté auprès des professionnels de la finance (gestionnaires de fonds ou investisseurs institutionnels) chez lesquels il rencontre un large succès. Toutefois, il peine à susciter le même engouement auprès du grand public, mis à part quelques particuliers au profil bien précis. Dans cet article, les auteurs essaient de...

This paper explores the resilience of French listed companies to the COVID-19 shock. We examine the effect of numerous firm characteristics related to financial flexibility, ownership structure, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility on the stock returns during the COVID-19 shock. Our results show that French companies with more...

This article explores whether and how long-term investors influence non-executive employees’ incentives. While long-term investors benefit from long-term investments that create value over time, employees tend to be averse to long-term investments. We conjecture that long-term investors foster employee-related CSR to motivate employees to engage in...

This paper examines whether CEOs react to personal experience with global warming. Using a difference-in-differences setting, we find that CEOs’ exposure to abnormally hot temperature leads to a decrease in corporate carbon emissions intensity. Our results shed light on the role played by CEOs’ perception of the reality of climate change in reducin...

The COVID-19 shock and its unprecedented financial consequences have brought about vast uncertainty concerning the future of climate actions. We study the cross-section of stock returns during the COVID-19 shock to explore investors' views and expectations about environmental issues. The results show that firms with responsible strategies on enviro...

This paper studies the linkage between analyst coverage and Health and Safety (H&S) programs, which have started to emerge in U.S. firms to improve employee health and control healthcare expenditures. Given their homogeneity across firms, their well-documented profitability and long-term payoffs, H&S programs provide an interesting setting to revis...

This paper examines how external governance pressure from the media affects capital structure. Using a comprehensive set of corporate news, we find a negative relation between media coverage and financial leverage. The tests we use to address endogeneity suggest that the effect is causal. Cross-sectional tests indicate that the results are more pro...

In this study, we explore the implications of institutional investor distraction for earnings management. Our identification approach relies on a firm-level measure of institutional investor distraction that exploits exogenous attention-grabbing shocks to unrelated parts of institutional investors' portfolios. We find that firms with distracted ins...

We construct a measure of analyst-level distraction based on analysts' exposure to exogenous attention-grabbing events affecting firms under coverage. We find that temporarily distracted analysts achieve lower forecast accuracy, revise forecasts less frequently, and publish less informative forecast revisions relative to non-distracted analysts. Fu...

The COVID-19 shock and its unprecedented financial consequences have brought about vast uncertainty concerning the future of climate actions. We study the cross-section of stock returns during the COVID-19 shock to explore investors' views and expectations about environmental issues. The results show that firms with responsible strategies on enviro...

The COVID-19 shock and its unprecedented financial consequences have brought about vast uncertainty concerning the future of climate actions. We study the cross-section of stock returns during the COVID-19 shock to explore investors' views and expectations about environmental issues. The results show that firms with responsible strategies on enviro...

This paper explores the resilience of French listed companies to the COVID-19 shock. We examine the effect of numerous firm characteristics related to financial flexibility, ownership structure, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility on the stock returns during the COVID-19 shock. Our results show that French companies with more...

This paper explores the resilience of French listed companies to the COVID-19 shock. We examine the effect of numerous firm characteristics related to financial flexibility, ownership structure, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility on the stock returns during the COVID-19 shock. Our results show that French companies with more...

This paper examines whether stock market listing influences the persistence of bank performance across crises. We find that for both publicly and privately held banks, bank performance during the 1998 crisis is a strong predictor of bank performance during the 2007–2008 crisis. While for publicly held banks, the persistence is uniquely driven by bo...

This paper explores the effects of online customer ratings on debt capacity. Using a large sample of Parisian restaurants, we find a positive and economically significant relation between customer ratings and bank debt. We use the locally exogenous variation in customer ratings resulting from the rounding of scores in regression discontinuity tests...

This paper explores the effects of online customer ratings on debt capacity. Using a large sample of Parisian restaurants, we find a positive and economically significant relationship between customer ratings and bank debt. We use the locally exogenous variation in customer ratings resulting from the rounding of scores in regression discontinuity t...

Bank capital is the cornerstone of bank regulation and is considered a key determinant of a bank's ability to withstand economic shocks. In the area of bank capital regulation, the general view is that more bank capital is better, irrespective of who provides it. In this paper, we investigate whether the investment horizon of bank capital providers...

Le return on equity (ROE) est le principal indicateur de performance dans les banques. En nous centrant sur les crises de 1998 et de 2007-08, nous montrons que le ROE pré-crise est un déterminant important du risque individuel et du risque systémique d’une banque pendant la crise. Cette association reste robuste lorsque nous contrôlons pour de nomb...

Return on Equity (RoE) is a central measure of performance in the banking industry, which is used to allocate capital inside and across divisions. The reliance on this metric emerged from the risk management approach to banking which underlies bank capital regulation. Using the financial crisis, we reveal that the pre-crisis RoE has a strong impact...