The market value of corporate stock in the United States increased by nearly one trillion dollars between December 1994 and July 1995. This paper explores the distribution of the stock ownership, and hence the gains from the stock price rise, and what the rise in stock prices implies for...

Given standard, transparent assumptions, this paper questions the Wall Street adage that 'timing is everything'. I show that for an Arrow security, a 'small' risk-neutral trader with private information that is conditionally independent of the public information is exactly indifferent about the...

This paper explores environments in which either the revelation or diffusion of information, or its incorporation into stock prices, is gradual, and develops appropriate estimation techniques. This paper has implications both for event study met hodology and for understanding the process by...

We analyse an economy where production is subject to moral hazard.

This paper examines the agency conflict between mutual fund investors and mutual fund companies. Investors would like the fund company to use its judgment to maximize risk-adjusted fund returns. A fund company, however, in its desire to maximize its value as a concern has an incentive to take...