The purpose of this paper is to investigate the wealth effects of the issuance of guidelines by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to encourage pharmaceutical manufacturers to use internal controls or self-regulation “to efficiently monitor adherence to applicable statutes, regulations, and...

Our article investigates the stock market reaction of the issuance of guidelines by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to prod biotechnology manufacturers to strengthen self-regulation so as to efficiently monitor adherence to applicable statutes, regulations and program requirements in their...

The calculation of forward rates implied in Treasury spot rates is well known. A simple extension that uses yields on TIPS and similar-maturity conventional Treasury securities to estimate changes in the market's expectation of inflation is less well known. One interesting opportunity to apply...