Carry trade strategies in which investors sell forward currencies that are at a forward premium and buy forward currencies that are at a forward discount are, on average, profitable. According to the uncovered interest rate parity they should not. A risk premia story might justify the high...

Can the Fama-French (1993) factors and Carhart's (1997) momentum factor be derived from CAPM? Surprisingly, the answer is YES, once a basic form of stock market incompleteness is accounted for. Investors cannot trade growth opportunities (GOs) separately from net assets in place (NAIPs). Because...

The aim of this paper is to determine the extent to which major industrial crises have a long-run effect on shareholder wealth. We add to the previous evidence that such crises can have a short-term negative impact on stock prices. The long-term effect is important because institutional...

This paper reconsiders the issue of share price reactions to dividend announcements. Previous papers rely almost exclusively on a naive dividend model in which the dividend change is used as a proxy for the dividend surprise. We use the difference between the actual dividend and the analyst...

In this paper we propose a new analysis of the association between the growth of the earnings per share (EPS) as reflected in analysts' forecasts, the book value of equity, the EPS and the market value of equity. Specifically, we motivate and introduce a new specification of the dynamics of the...

In this paper, we investigate the empirical relation between corporate governance and stock market liquidity of the French firms. Based on a cross-sectional analysis, our study of the empirical relation between the corporate governance and the stock liquidity was realized on 155 French companies...

We empirically examine the effects of venture capital (VC) firms on VC backed listed companies in French Nouveau Marché and Second Marché between 1991 and 2004. While studies in the US market shown a lower underpricing and a better long run performance for VC backed firms, we find that the...

In the 1990s, European merger regulation (EMR) was biased against foreign acquirers, especially if the deal harmed domestic rivals (i.e., protectionism). In 2002, the Court of First Instance overturned three prohibitions by the European Commission (EC) and criticized its economic analysis. These...

Do demand or supply shocks which are not accompanied by new information affect prices? If so, is the price effect temporary ("price pressure hypothesis") or permanent ("imperfect substitutes hypothesis")? Numerous empirical studies have dealt with these questions and yet the issue is still...

We take advantage of two parallel markets for a set of cash flows to show that better cash flow measurement improves the performance of a dividend discount model. Unlike previous literature, we use out-of-sample estimation. We construct a natural laboratory, by using a unique dataset of...