We examine the impact of accounting restatement announcement on firms’ value and information asymmetry for both auction market (NYSE-AMEX) and dealer market (NASDAQ) using a public sample of restatement announcements from 1997 to 2005. In both markets, we document economically and...

We examine the announcement-period acquirer returns and target values for a large sample of cross-border acquisitions by U.S. firms, differentiating between private and public targets and paying particular attention to the legal protection of minority shareholders in the target country. For...

In this article we examine whether the traditional characteristic liquidity premium can be explained by market liquidity risk. We find that after adjusting for Pastor and Stambaugh market liquidity factor, the level of traditional liquidity remains priced. Also, consistent with previous studies...