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Do Managerial Objectives Drive Bad Acquisitions?

Morck, Randall - 1989

This paper documents for a sample of 327 US acquisitions between 1975 and 1987 three forces that systematically reduce the announcement day return of bidding firms. The returns to bidding shareholders are lower when their firm diversifies, when it buys a rapidly growing target , and when the...

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Indexing and the Incorporation of Exogenous Information Shocks to Stock Prices

Morck, Randall; Yavuz, Mehmet Deniz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Savings increasingly flow to low-cost index funds, which simply buy and hold the stocks in a major index, such as the S&P 500. Increased indexing impedes incorporation of idiosyncratic information into stock prices. We limit endogeneity bias by showing that exogenous idiosyncratic currency...

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Inflation Illusion and Stock Prices

Campbell, John Y. - 2004

We empirically decompose the S&P 500's dividend yield into (1) a rational forecast of long-run real dividend growth, (2) the subjectively expected risk premium, and (3) residual mispricing attributed to the market's forecast of dividend growth deviating from the rational forecast. Modigliani and...

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Hard Times

Campbell, John Y. - 2010

This paper shows that the stock market downturns of 2000-2002 and 2007-09 have very different proximate causes. The early 2000's saw a large increase in the discount rates applied to corporate profits by rational investors, while the late 2000's saw a decrease in rational expectations of future...

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Information, analysts, and stock return comovement

Hameed, Allaudeen - 2010

We examine information spillover as a source of stock return synchronicity, where information about highly-followed "prominent" stocks is used to price other "neglected" stocks sharing a common fundamental component. We find that stocks followed by few analysts co-move significantly with...

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Characteristics of Observed Limit Order Demand and Supply Schedules for Individual Stocks

Kim, Jung-Wook - 2009

Using complete order books from the Korea Stock Exchange for a four-year period including the 1997 Asian financial crisis, we observe (not estimate) limit order demand and supply curves for individual stocks. Both curves have demonstrably finite elasticities. These fall markedly, by about 40%,...

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Do the Rich Get Richer in the Stock Market? Evidence from India

Campbell, John Y. - 2018

We use data on Indian stock portfolios to show that return heterogeneity is the primary contributor to increasing inequality of wealth held in risky assets by Indian individual investors. Return heterogeneity increases equity wealth inequality through two main channels, both of which are related...

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Alternative Mechanisms for Corporate Control

Morck, Randall - 1988

change: internally precipitated management turnover, hostile takeover, and friendly takeover. We find that firms experiencing … is also weaker evidence that hostile takeover targets underperform their industry peers. We interpret this evidence as … relative to industry, but that an external challenge in the form of a hostile takeover is often required when the whole …

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Characteristics of Hostile and Friendly Takeover Targets

Morck, Randall - 1987

Compared to an average Fortune 500 firm, a target of a hostile takeover is smaller, older, has a lower Tobin's Q … results suggest that the motive for a takeover often determines its mood. Thus disciplinary takeovers are more often hostile …

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What Drives Booms and Busts in Value?

Campbell, John Y.; Giglio, Stefano; Polk, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Value investing delivers volatile returns, with large drawdowns during both market booms and busts. This paper interprets these returns through an intertemporal CAPM, which predicts that aggregate cash flow, discount rate, and volatility news all move value returns. We document that indeed these...

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