We study outcomes to ADR investments between August 1954 and September 2020, with attention to ADRs associated with Chinese firms. Overall, ADRs improved investors’ wealth by $1.03 trillion, with more than a third of this amount attributable to ADRs associated with Chinese firms. A...

We study long-run outcomes to those who invested in non-U.S. stocks through American Depository Receipts (ADRs) between August 1954 and September 2020, with particular attention to ADRs associated with Chinese firms. Overall, ADRs improved their investors’ wealth by $1.03 trillion, as compared...

Corporate managers frequently announce corporate distributions, including stock splits, stock dividends, special dividends, and increases in regular dividends, on the anniversary of a like announcement at the same firm. The market appears to not fully appreciate the implications of current...

Mutual fund flows are negatively related to fund performance more than about five years prior. This finding holds for both institutional and retail share classes, and across fund style categories. We develop and test the investor disappointment hypothesis, which holds that those who forecast...

Widely used databases report stock returns that are measured at the monthly horizon, while investors participate in the markets over multiple months. Most academic studies report conditional or unconditional arithmetic means of the monthly returns. We describe the odd trading strategy...