Practitioners and academics often consider IPO activity as a gauge of investor optimism and market valuation. This study investigates the cross-sectional implications of this concept at the country level. We use sorting and cross-sectional tests to examine linkages between past share issuance...

Do firms conducting reverse splits underperform or overperform in the long run? To resolve this question we investigate the long-term returns following more than 5,000 reverse splits conducted in 24 developed equity markets between the years 1990 and 2016. Using the calendar-time portfolio...

This study investigates the low-price effect on the Polish stock market. By adopting sorting, cross-sectional tests and checks of the monotonic relation, we have examined the performance of the portfolios formed on the prices of over 850 companies listed on the Polish stock market within the...