We study the effect of bank loan announcements on the borrowing firms' bond and equity prices. Our sample consists of 896 loan deals signed between 1997 to 2003 involving 364 different U.S. firms. We report the first comprehensive evidence that also firm bond prices react to bank loan...

Using a new set of monthly stock price data for a random sample of German companies, we investigate the pattern of common stock returns on the Berlin Stock Exchange between 1904 and 1910, when it ranked among the very top markets worldwide. We find that the CAPM performs poorly in this context:...

This paper analyzes convertible arbitrage, one of the most successful hedge fund strategies. The aim of the strategy is to exploit underpricing of convertible bonds by taking a long position in a convertible and a short position in the underlying asset. We find that convertible bonds are...

The monthly volatility of IPO initial returns is substantial, fluctuates dramatically over time, and is considerably larger during quot;hotquot; IPO markets. Consistent with IPO theory, the volatility of initial returns is higher among firms whose value is more difficult to estimate, i.e., among...

We examine whether unaffiliated financial analysts' Buy recommendations after IPOs earn higher returns than those of affiliated analysts during the 1994-2001 time period, when analysts working at investment banks are alleged to have been influenced by conflicts of interest. We extend the work of...

We use a fully-specified neoclassical model augmented with costly external equity as a laboratory to study the relations between stock returns and equity financing decisions. Simulations show that the model can simultaneously and in many cases quantitatively reproduce: procyclical equity issuance;...

This paper examines analyst recommendations in the G7 countries and evaluates the value of these recommendations over the 1993 to 2002 period. We find that the proportion of sell and strong sell recommendations in all of the countries are less than the proportion of the buy and strong buy...

Financial economists in recent years have closely examined and intensely debated the performance of initial public offerings using data after the formation of NASDAQ. The paper seeks to shed light on this controversy by undertaking a large, out-of-sample study: we examine the performance for up...

The relation that may exist between rating announcements and bond spreads is unclear, despite the fact that many event studies have been dedicated to that problem. Several of them cast a doubt upon the utility and the function of credit rating agencies on the bond markets, which are usually...