The first chapter of this dissertation examines the returns to frequent acquirers fromemerging markets and analyzes the cross-country variations in cumulative abnormal returns.The sample consists of 5,147 transactions carried out by firms from 17 common and civil-lawcountries during the period...

The first chapter of this dissertation examines the returns to frequent acquirers from emerging markets and analyzes the cross-country variations in cumulative abnormal returns. The sample consists of 5,147 transactions carried out by firms from 17 common and civil-law countries during the...

We study the difference in the volatility dynamics of CBOT corn, soybeans, and oatsfutures prices across different delivery horizons via the smoothed Bayesian estimatorof Karali, Dorfman, and Thurman (2010). We show that the futures price volatilitiesin these markets are affected by the...