We study IPOs by focusing on the degree of portfolio diversification of the shareholders taking the company public. We argue that a less diversified shareholder has more to gain from taking the company public and would be more willing to accept a lower price for the sale of its shares, i.e....

We study the effects of the controlling shareholders' portfolio diversification on the IPO process. Less-diversified shareholders have more to gain from taking their firm public, and are more willing to accept a lower price for shares. We test these hypotheses using the data on all IPOs in...

We study IPOs by focusing on the degree of portfolio diversification of the shareholders taking the company public. We argue that a less diversified shareholder has more to gain from taking the company public and would be more willing to accept a lower price for the sale of its shares, i.e....

Do exchange rates react to exogenous capital movements? We explore this issue based on the redefinition of the MSCI international equity indices announced on 10 December 2000 and implemented in two steps on 30 November 2001 and 31 May 2002. The index changes implied major changes in the...

We study the effect of investment horizon clienteles on the IPO market. We start from the premise – that we support with evidence – that IPO stocks are very liquid in the after-market. Therefore, short-term investors should have a higher reservation price for them than long-term investors....

We study how the heterogeneity in investment horizons of institutional investors affects the IPO market. We document the fact that short-term investors prefer more liquid stocks than long-term investors do and that IPO stocks are very liquid in the after-market. On this premise, we argue that...

Using novel data on investors' bond portfolios, we study the contagion of the crisis from securitized bonds to corporate bonds. When securitized bonds became “toxic” in August 2007, mutual funds retained the now illiquid securitized bonds and sold corporate bonds. Funds with negative flows...

Using a large sample of US active equity mutual funds from 1983 to 2001, we show that portfolio liquidity is actively managed and chosen as a function of the multiple liquidity needs a fund has. Using portfolio liquidity as a parsimonious proxy for the severity of liquidity needs, we find that...

We study the link between social interaction and stock market bubbles. We argue that an increase in social interaction may facilitate the birth of a cascade-type pattern and indirectly of a bubble. We concentrate on a form of interaction that is rooted back in the past: college-based interaction...

We study the link between portfolio choice and different college-based interaction - defined as the one that relates the portfolio choice of an investor to that of the other investors who went to the same college. We explain it in terms of a common cultural imprinting and the development of...