We examine the relation between intra-day price discovery and proxies for financial openness and investor accessibility using a sample of intra-day price and quote data of 1,504 stocks from 23 emerging markets. We measure price discovery by weighted price contribution across segments of the...

Taxation can be considered central to corporate finance theory, where it contributes to the determination of capital structure, dividend policy and valuation of the firm. However, it plays little role in the developments of market finance theory, financial investment analysis or asset and...

Prior evidence suggests that managers learn indirectly from stock prices, which contain private information impounded by informed investors' trades. However, stock price is an indirect aggregate signal, which is likely to be insufficient for managerial learning. I propose that managers seek out...

Financial regulations often encourage or require market participants to hold particular types of financial assets. One unintended consequence of this form of regulation is that it can spur innovation to increase the effective supply of favored assets. This Article examines when and how changes...

Banks' interactions vary in nature from competition to mutually beneficial trading with one another. This creates important links across markets, implying that bank strategies cannot be considered in isolation in a single market. I set up a model where profit-maximizing banks jointly determine...

I propose and develop a framework for the financial economic analysis of investing with altruistic preferences. A key part of the framework is the precise definition of different forms of impact and, in particular, investor impact. This has several practical implications including that investor...

This paper is based on the model of backward linkages from foreign direct investment (FDI) Lin/Saggi (2003), where the market structure of the final goods sector is represented by a monopoly or Cournot oligopoly, and the supplier sector - by a pure monopoly. We extend this model by examining...