...). Design/methodology/approach This study focuses on the S&P 500 firms for the period 2015–2016 to 2022–2023 to study the overall impact of ESG disclosure on CI and investigate the differential impact of the same based on firms’ intangible assets by applying the system generalized method of moments...

...Matthew Faulkner; Tracie Frost; Stoyu I. Ivanov Purpose We examine the changes in a firm’s cost of debt after it is included in or removed from the S&P 500. The extant literature on index composition focuses on the cost of equity and lacks an understanding of the impacts on a firm’s cost...

...Ngo Thai Hung Purpose This paper investigates the dynamic intercorrelation among cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) and conventional financial assets (gold, oil and S&P 500). Design/methodology/approach The dynamic contemporaneous nexus has been analyzed using spillover index developed and extended...

...Gonul Colak Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the initial public offerings (IPOs) of the firms that are eventually included in one of the S&P 400, the S&P 500, or the S&P 600 Indices. Do these firms have very different IPO features than the rest of the IPOs? Design...

...Eric Belasco; Michael Finke; David Nanigian Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of S&P 500 index fund money flow on the valuations of companies that are constituents of the index and those that are not. Design/methodology/approach To examine the impact of passive...