We present a simple model of an entrepreneur going public in an environment with poor legal protection of outside shareholders. The model incorporates elements of Beckeracirc;not;quot;s (1968) acirc;not;Scrime and punishmentacirc;not;? framework into a corporate finance environment of Jensen and...

A number of studies have identified patterns of positive correlation of returns, or comovement, among different traded securities. We distinguish three views of such co- movement. The traditional quot;fundamentalsquot; view explains the comovement of securities through positive correlations in...

We consider two broad views of return comovement: the traditional view, derived from frictionless economies with rational investors, which attributes it to comovement in news about fundamental value, and an alternative view, in which market frictions or noise-trader sentiment delink it from...

A number of studies have identified patterns of positive correlation of returns, orcomovement, among different traded securities. We distinguish three views of such comovement. The traditional \fundamentalsquot; view explains the comovement of securities through positive correlations in the...

We present a simple model of an entrepreneur going public in an environment with poor legal protection of outside shareholders. The model incorporates elements of Beckeracirc;not;quot;s (1968) acirc;not;Scrime and punishmentacirc;not;? framework into a corporate finance environment of Jensen and...