Lin, Ji-Chai; Singh, Ajai K.; Yu, Wen - In: Journal of Financial Economics 93 (2009) 3, pp. 474-489
We hypothesize that managers use stock splits to attract more uninformed trading so that market makers can provide liquidity services at lower costs, thereby increasing investors' trading propensity and improving liquidity. We examine a large sample of stock splits and find that, consistent with...