Hard-to-value stocks provide opportunities for managers to exploit their informational advantage through trading on their firms' and their own personal accounts. In contrast to the prediction that such transactions reflect private information about future events, they are contrarian and heavily...

Using a large database of U.S. seasoned equity offering (SEO) announcements from 2010 to 2015, we examine the effects of several explanatory variables-firm specific, macroeconomic, fixed income, and stock market variables-on the announcement period abnormal stock returns and on the longer-run...

Using a large sample of bank seasoned equity offerings (SEO) from 2002 to 2017, we first documented detailed descriptive statistics, and showed that nonperforming assets ratio, our primary measure of bank asset quality, reached the highest value immediately after the 2008 economic crisis, which...

We use meta-analysis to review studies on announcement effects associated with seasoned equity offerings. Our sample includes 199 studies from 38 leading finance journals and SSRN working papers. The studies cover different countries, but the U.S. is particularly well-represented with 131...

This paper provides an empirical link between the expected cost of equity and firms' Seasoned Equity Offerings activities, using a novel measure of forward-looking cost of equity. There is a negative impact of expected cost equity on SEO likelihood and amount of proceeds, exists on both market...