Recent developments in the U.S. corporate bond market, as well as recent evidence on the pricing of illiquidity in this market, prompt us to reexamine the pricing of new bonds. The pricing of new investment-grade bonds appears to reflect both initial underpricing and higher liquidity: New bonds...

Certain corporate transactions (eg. insider purchases and buyback announcements) are known to be robust predictors of firm-level returns. However, I empirically show equity analysts largely ignore such informative, yet subtle, signals of stocks they cover. A trading strategy that follows...

We provide first empirical evidence of the long-term realized performance of alternative beta strategies. Despite diversified risk premia portfolios achieving satisfactory Sharpe ratios of 0.80 – 1.07 over the past decade, we show that up to two thirds of the performance can be explained by...

We examine the performance of 2,790 private equity (PE) funds incepted during 1979-2008 using Stochastic Discount Factors (SDFs) implied by the two leading consumption-based asset pricing models (CBAPMs) — external habit and long-run risks — as their assumptions appear consistent with...

This study uses security-level investor demand and dynamic pricing information in the primary bond market to examine investor tastes for ESG assets and their pricing effects. We find that green bonds are significantly more oversubscribed than their conventional counterparts offered by the same...

Listing of stocks on the stock exchange offers business firms several advantages such as diversification, liquidity, establishing a value for the firm etc. The present paper analyses stocks of six commercial banks (viz., Dubai Commercial Bank, Emirates Bank International, National Bank of Dubai,...

We present a model to study the role of earnings management in explaining the properties of asset prices and stock market participation. We demonstrate that limited market participation can arise endogenously in the presence of earnings management. Our model generates novel predictions on how...

The paper contrasts theories that explain diverse belief by asymmetric private information (in short PI) with theories which postulate agents use subjective heterogenous beliefs (in short HB). We focus on problems where agents forecast aggregates such as profit rate of the Samp;P500 and our...

The "quant crisis" of 2007 and subsequent unfolding of the global financial crisis highlighted the importance of the "crowded-trade" problem (not being able to know how many others are taking the same position). To investigate the crowded trading, we present a model in which informed and...

During currency crises, large traders once simultaneously short the asset markets and currency market. We study the large trader's information manipulation in crises by introducing a large trader in an asset market and a currency-attack coordination game with imperfect information. The asset...