In this study, we examine the effect of introducing SSE 50ETF index options trading on stock market volatility using a panel data evaluation approach. Based on the cross-sectional dependence among international stock indices and macroeconomic indicators, we estimate the counterfactual volatility...

Applying a negative binomial regression model, this paper investigates how Chinese exports have reshaped the global value chain and the use of antidumping. We use trade in value‐added statistics to distinguish between Chinese exports of intermediate and final products to its main trading...

We find the form of U.S. corporate cash payout to shareholders often relevant to share price and in different directions at different times. Regularly cash-dividend paying firms have a significant share price premium compared to regularly stock-repurchasing firms in the early 1970s, but this...

We extend the evidence on whether investors impound efficiently into stock prices new disclosures about corporate Ramp;D programs. We find firms that disclose the discontinuation of some of their Ramp;D programs experience a significant negative announcement-period stock price response which is...

We show that the manager of a sufficiently undervalued firm is incentivized to allocate financial slack for a share repurchase to gain an immediate, risk free, and corporate tax free wealth transfer from uninformed shareholders, instead of undertaking a real investment with long term, risky, and...

This study explores the strategic interaction between large institutional investors and firms that issue put options written on their own stock. The firms experience large positive abnormal annual returns after they sell put options. The vast majority of issued put options expire without being...