The ratio of the yields on short-term tax-exempt and taxable bonds exhibits a sawtooth pattern that is consistent with th e impacts of tax deferments from dates on which interest payments are received to dates on which the resulting tax payments are paid. The effect of the tax deferment at turns...

Previous research documents positive ex-dividend day returns in excess of one percent in the unique institutional setting of Hong Kong, where neither dividends nor capital gains are taxed. Short-term arbitrage trades around the ex-day were hampered by physical settlement procedures. After the...

The authors document abnormal trading profits in Dutch auction self-tenders. Tender period profits--buying after announcement and selling just before expiration--are 1.74 percent. Buying just before expiration and tendering yields abnormal profits of 1.36 percent. Total profits from buying just...