This research examines the relationship between firm-specific liquidity and both information asymmetry and divergence of opinion, within the context of different trading system (i.e. floor versus electronic), for UK, Swiss and German stock markets. By using both univariate and multivariate...

This paper explores the interaction between insider trading and seasoned equity offering in the context of Myers and Majluf (1984). Private information conveyed through trading activities may mitigate information asymmetry and improve capital market efficiency. Moreover, an insider has less...

We examine how liquidity and asset prices are affected by the following market imperfections: asymmetric information, participation costs, transaction costs, leverage constraints, non-competitive behavior and search. Our model has three periods: agents are identical in the first, become...

Originators produce higher quality assets at a private cost. These assets can either be bought by informed intermediaries or sold in a pool with low quality assets. Savings gluts diminish origination incentives because they compress the spread between the price paid for high quality assets and...

The paper investigates the impact of capital structure and information asymmetry on the value of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The study was conducted using the ordinary least squares (OLS) method on a sample of 273 companies in 2017 and the GMM dynamic paneldata approach with...