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others. This statement coincides with the increasing use of arbitrage-related hedge fund strategies whereas it collides with … Werner examines aggregate short sales and convertible bond arbitrage, which is a typical hedge fund strategy that involves a … difference in the trading pattern, information content and resulting impact on stock returns of arbitrage- versus valuation …
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Using daily short sale transactions data for firms traded in the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) from January 1991 to January 2007, we examine the pattern of short selling trading prior to 338 acquisition announcements. Consistent with the view that short sellers act as informed traders, we find...
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arbitrage funds. These funds buy convertibles and short the underlying stocks, causing downward price pressure. Consistent with …-1999) and the Arbitrage period (2000-September 2008) disappear when controlling for arbitrage-induced short selling associated … with a range of hedging strategies. Post-issuance stock returns are also in line with the arbitrage explanation. Average …
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During financial crises, financial market regulators often restrict short-selling to support prices and curb volatility. However, evidence suggests that short-selling bans during the turmoil in financial markets in 2007--2009 failed to achieve regulators' goals. We analyze a model of costly...
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managerial agency problem correctly. Our theory assumes that strict corporate governance prevents managers from diverting cash …
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The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has considered climate change as a risk issue since 2010. Several emission disclosure initiatives exist aimed at informing investors about the financial risks associated with a zero or low carbon transition. Stricter regulations, particularly in a few...
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This paper proposes a theoretical model that incorporates corporate governance into the basic CAPM, where corporate …
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delay (i.e. a matter of a few weeks rather than several months). An earlier, but largely untested, theory attributes the …. Consistent with this theory we find for a sample of US convertibles that: (i) the average firm delays calling its convertible …
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