Over the years relationship between bonus issues or stock splits & stock prices has been the subject of much empirical discussion within the finance literature. According to theory, bonus issues increase the number of equity stocks outstanding but have no effect on stockholder's proportional...

This paper is an empirical investigation of the relation between the dispersion on analysts' earnings forecasts and the future performance following a change in the nominal price of shares. On a sample of US splits occurred from 1993 to 2013, we observe a change in the distribution of analysts'...

We report on an experiment studying how traders react to stock splits and reverse splits. In the first environment, two assets have increasing fundamental values, and one asset is subject to a 2-for-1 share split while the other is not. In the second environment, the fundamental values of both...

This paper examines stock market reaction to the earnings announcements by taking December 2001 quarter earnings announcement as an event. The study is based on 152 companies having minimum 20 percent foreign holdings. The companies are divided into, good news, bad news and overall portfolios....

This study examines the information content of stock split announcements. It is hypothesized that there are abnormal returns around the stock split announcement dates. Negative AARs are found before and after the announcement. The negative reaction after the stock split announcement suggests...

We investigate the impact of the French 2012 financial transaction tax on trading volumes and volatility. We extend empirical research by analyzing announcement and short-run treatment effects, migration effects, and long-run volatility measures. We find a strong short-run impact on trading...