In this paper, we develop a dynamic model of institutional share dumping surrounding control events. Uninformed institutional investors dump shares, despite trading losses, in order to manipulate share prices and trigger activism by activist quot;relationshipquot; investors. Nonactivist...

This paper develops a new theory of the capital structure of parent--subsidiary organizations based on legal-system arbitrage: The capital structure of parent--subsidiary organizations is chosen to minimize the agency costs generated by selective renegotiation of claims written on the component...

We show that seasoned equity offerings (SEOs), in which secondary share-offering size greatly exceeds market share turnover, provide a unique opportunity for stock price manipulation by speculators holding restricted shares. The proposed new theory is consistent with several puzzling empirical...

This study finds a significant and pervasive decline but not an elimination of CEO optionbased compensation after the corporate governance scandals around 2000-2001 centered on executive option compensation. Some, but not all, of the drop is predicted by changes in the characteristics of firms,...

This paper model the real investment and financial portfolio decisions of a regulated utility, selling power at fixed prices to consumers and buying power in an unregulated spot market. Consumer demand is stochastic and subject to large shocks. Utilities can either meet consumers' demand by...

This paper models the real investment and financial portfolio decisions of a regulated utility, selling power at fixed prices to consumers and buying power in an unregulated spot market. Consumer demand is stochastic and subject to large shocks. Utilities can either meet consumers' demand by...

This paper develops a theory of strategic trading in markets with large influential arbitrageurs. If arbitrageurs are not very well-capitalized, margin requirements or capital constraints make their trades predictable. Other market participants can exploit this by trading against them....

This paper presents a simple manipulation that (i) reduces the two numerical integrations needed to compute option prices using fourier inversion into a single numerical integration and (ii) reduces the number of characteristic function evaluations needed to obtain a given level of accuracy. The...

This paper obtains equilibrium interest rate option prices for discontinuous short-term interest rate processes. The prices are first obtained for a general distribution of jump sizes using a process with a number of fixed sized jumps. The option price is the expectation, over the number and...

This paper derives arbitrage trading strategies taking into account the fact that the actions of arbitrageurs impact prices. This avoids the difficulty of having to rely on exogenous position limits to prevent infinite arbitrage profits. When arbitrageurs are financially constrained their...