This paper examines the relation between short selling and returns and the impact of arbitrage costs on short sellers' behavior. Using daily UK short selling data, we find that stocks with low short interest levels experience significant positive returns on both an equal- and value-weighted...

In this paper we examine the relation between equity mispricing and arbitrage risk, and find that stocks with high arbitrage risk have higher estimated mispricing than stocks with low arbitrage risk. These results are not limited to high book-to-market or small capitalization stocks, and they...

In this paper, we examine whether abnormal analyst coverage influences the external financing of the firm. Controlling for self-selection bias in analysts' excessive coverage, we find that firms with high (low) excess analyst coverage consistently engage in higher (lower) external financing than...

This study investigates the potential effects of investment-banking reputation and venture capital on the long-term underperformance of IPOs simultaneously. Our findings do not support the view that IPOs perform differently than other firms, with the only exception of venture backed IPOs. We...

In this paper we conduct an out-of-sample test of two behavioral theories that have been proposed to explain momentum in stock returns. We test the gradual-information-diffusion model of Hong and Stein (1999) and the investor conservatism bias model of Barberis, Shleifer and Vishny (1998) in a...

In this paper, we examine whether the external financing and investment rate of the firm are influenced by abnormal analyst coverage. We find that firms with high (low) excess analyst coverage have consistently higher (lower) external financing and investment rate than firms of similar size in...

We investigate whether divergence of opinion among investors, manifested in the dispersion of analysts' earnings forecasts, plays an important role in asset pricing. Specifically, we test whether disagreement can explain the cross-sectional return difference between value and growth stocks over...

This study provides new evidence on the effects of macroeconomic news announcements on the Canadian dollar futures price. Previous work on foreign exchange futures has focused only on the impact of U.S. news, ignoring the bi-national character of information flows that affect exchange rates. The...

We examine whether acquisitions by overconfident managers generate superior abnormal returns and whether managerial overconfidence stems from self-attribution. Self-attribution bias suggests that overconfidence plays a greater role in higher order acquisition deals predicting lower wealth...

Several empirical studies show that investment strategies that favor the purchase of stocks with low prices relative to dividends, earnings, book value or other measures of value yield higher returns. Some of these studies imply that investors are too optimistic about (glamour) stocks that have...