The October 14, 2008 TARP program mandated a forced issuance of TARP preferred stock by the largest U.S. banks. Soon after, many smaller banks were not forced but chose to issue TARP preferred stock after being approved for issuance. We investigate the impact of TARP preferred issuance upon...

Finance research suggests that firms cater to investors' time-varying preference for low-priced stocks by managing nominal share prices. We show that the existing empirical tests of such catering use highly persistent data that may lead to finding significant relations between variables that are...

Increasing globalization has meant the internet becoming ever more part of the routine of people around the world. With the evolution of the internet, social networks have emerged in order to facilitate communication between people, communities and even between corporations. Social networks...

This study reexamines Dubofsky's (1992) limit order adjustment hypothesis via an intraday analysis of minute-by-minute trade and quote data recorded on the ex-dividend days of common stocks listed on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ. According to Dubofsky's (1992) model, the asymmetric adjustment of...