This paper uses event study methods to estimate wealth effects upon shareholders who are named by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as potentially responsible parties at a Superfund site. Impacts appear to be divided into three periods: an initial program period where stock market...

The standard capital market event study is used to measure Japanese firm-specific effects resulting from action taken by the US in response to alleged dumping of Japanese imports in US markets. Empirical findings are that winners and losers in the process differ predictably from each other and...