This study investigates the comovement across China, Hong Kong, and U.S. stock markets with the dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) model proposed in Engle (2002). This study answers three questions. First, will the policies of the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors system (QFII) and...

We examine the conflict of interest that an investment bank faces when advising both the target and acquirer in a merger or acquisition (M&A) by investigating how common advisors affect deal outcomes. We compare M&As with common advisors to deals in which targets and acquirers use different...

This paper examines the determinants of merging firms' choice of a common or separate M&A advisor, and the consequences of this choice on several deal outcomes. We analyze a large sample of acquisitions and account for the endogenous choice of common or separate advisors. We find that common...

We examine a sample of 132 dual tracking targets - private firms entertaining acquisition offers at the same time as preparing for initial public offerings (IPOs) and eventually withdrawing their IPOs to be acquired after spending considerable time, money, and effort preparing for IPOs. We find...

We examine the determinants and deal valuation consequences of private sellers' choice of hiring M&A advisers or top-tier advisers. Advisers can find and negotiate better deals for sellers, but hiring them entails fees and potential agency costs. Using a hand-collected dataset on the hiring of...

This paper examines the initial public offering (IPO) valuations of issuers that return to the IPO market successfully after withdrawing their first IPO attempt. We find that these second-time IPOs sell at a significant discount relative to similar contemporaneous IPOs that succeed in their...

The application of solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) is a versatile strategy to increase the energy density of solid-state batteries as well as their safety. Poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) is an appealing matrix for SPEs due to its superior lithium salt dissolution ability. However, while such...

This study uses a natural experiment resulting from the 1997 Securities and Exchange Commission rule mandating a change in the order handling rules (OHR) for all NASDAQ stocks to test whether secondary market structure affects IPO underpricing. We find that the increase in liquidity that the OHR...

Booth and Chua (1996) suggest that underpricing may boost secondary market liquidity of an initial public offering (IPO), but to date there is little evidence on this point. In this study, we employ ten measures of liquidity to explore whether the underpricing of IPOs boosts subsequent secondary...