We examine the firms' decisions in freezing their defined-benefit pension plans and the effect it has on shareholders' wealth. Plan freezes help relieve sponsors of the implicit promises made to employees regarding future compensation. We find evidence that a pension plan freeze has a positive...

We analyze all NASDAQ firms with respect to their short-horizon return predictability, which Chordia et al. (2008) formulate as an inverse indicator of market efficiency. Our results confirm that increased liquidity enhances market efficiency, and show that this effect is amplified during...