The Income-Based Repayment (IBR) plan decreases the burden of student loan debt for borrowers with high levels of debt or relatively low incomes. For borrowers with high debt or low income, student loan debt payments are based on income instead of the amount of debt and the interest rate. The...

Existing research finds that changes to expected offer prices of IPOs are correlated to initial returns. This study finds that shares issued are also partially adjusted while increases in shares outstanding are associated with lower initial returns. The effect of the shares issued adjustment is...

Growing interest in public sector pension plans is rooted in the common stake all citizens have in the cost, operation, performance and viability of these plans. In addition to these public finance issues, the management and oversight of public pension plans provides an interesting study in the...

The external environment affects firm payout policies. A firm's behavior during positive and negative external shocks could be different from what theories have postulated. Several theories have been proposed for share repurchases. Using the financial crisis and quantitative easing period as a...

Many companies issued tracking stock during the 1980s and 1990s. Tracking stock is a class of stock that should track the performance of a unit within a diversified corporation, while the shareholders of the parent retain ownership rights to the assets of the tracking unit. However, the majority...

This study extends the research on closed-end fund performance persistence by investigating whether the persistence of both net asset value (NAV) and market price returns of U.S. registered closed-end funds is related to various fund characteristics. The sample consists of 505 closed-end funds,...

Entrepreneurship is not only used to create a business idea, but also to restructure a business in response to environmental conditions. Firms that issue equity after emerging from bankruptcy are unique in that they exhibit less asymmetric information than other firms that issue equity. They...

We examine an effect of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) on voluntary public managerial guidance information quality. Results suggest that the information quality of public guidance has not deteriorated after RegFD. We also examine separately the effect of Reg FD on information efficiency...

We assess the bond market response to the Bear Stearns rescue in March 2008 and the Lehman Brothers failure (combined with news about the acquisition of Merrill Lynch and AIG's investment banking problems and subsequent rescue) in September 2008. The Bear Stearns rescue elicited a moderately...

The increased government efforts to pursue insider trading charges against Galleon Group and the subsequent increase in penalties for violating insider trading laws can deter managers from leaking information and deter investors from capitalizing on leaked information before earnings guidance...