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This paper investigates the investment decisions of IPO investors when equipped with information on both the quality of the firm and the market sentiment. Unique regulatory provisions allow IPO investors in India to have access to the independent assessment of firm quality and information on the...
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Using eight measures of liquidity, and addressing the potential endogeneity of initial returns, we find underpricing … generally increases the secondary market liquidity of IPOs over the first year of trading, irrespective of the horizon over … which liquidity is measured. For two model specifications over the eight measures, fifteen regressions display signs …
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This paper presents a flexible, lattice-based structural credit risk model that uses equity market information and a detailed depiction of a financial institution’s liability structure to analyze default risk. The model is applied to examine the term structure of default probabilities for...
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When a firm cross-lists its shares in segmented markets, the price of the first issued share, as a reference, plays both an informational and anchoring role in pricing the second issued share. We develop a model illustrating the dual-role. Empirically, we examine a group of Chinese firms that...
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stocks. The long-term price increase for added stocks can be attributed to increases in institutional ownership, liquidity … effect on analyst coverage and shadow cost, we find a rebound in the institutional ownership and liquidity of deleted stocks …
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measurement of commonalities in liquidity and comovements of stocks and bid-ask spreads into the forecasting of three types of … liquidity-adjusted intraday Value-at-Risk (L-IVaR). In a preliminary analysis, we document strong extreme comovements in … liquidity and strong tail dependence between bid-ask spreads and log returns across the firms in our sample thus motivating our …
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This paper examines the trading behavior of two groups of liquidity providers (specialists and competing market makers … market-wide measure of liquidity. A double sort using past trades of specialists and competing market makers produces a long …-short portfolio that earns 88 basis points per week (act as complements). Finally, we identify a “chain” of liquidity provision …
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When a financial crisis breaks out, speculators typically get the blame whereas fundamentalists are presented as the safeguard against excessive volatility. This paper proposes an asset pricing model where two types of rational traders coexist: short-term speculators and long-term...
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Several studies report that abnormal returns associated with short-term reversal investment strategies diminish once trading costs are taken into account. We show that the impact of trading costs on the strategies’ profitability can largely be attributed to excessively trading in small cap...
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The paper empirically explores how more trade transparency affects market liquidity. The analysis takes advantage of a … more transparency need not improve market liquidity. Second, the paper finds a particularly strong immediate liquidity … to the data, the study can empirically establish the functional form between market-wide transparency and liquidity. The …
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