The impact of U.S. bank loan announcements on the stock prices of the corporate borrowers has been decreasing during the two last decades with estimated two-day cumulative abnormal returns slipping from almost 200 basis points in the beginning of the 1980s to close to zero by the turn of the...

Since the adoption of the SEC's Rule 10b-21 in 1988, many researchers have been concerned over the effectiveness of short sales constraints in preventing manipulative trading in the derivatives market. We analyze whether options can be used as synthetic short sale instruments to manipulate stock...

This study examines whether auditors' industry expertise is negatively associated with underpricing of seasoned equity offerings (SEO) and whether the association between auditors' industry expertise and SEO underpricing changes around the global financial crisis (GFC). Using a sample of 2,028...

We analyze equity issuance by publicly-traded U.S. banks during 2001-2014 through exchanges (SEOs), private placements (PIPEs), and TARP. Equity markets were important for bank recapitalization in the crisis, when SEO and PIPE issuance peaked. We find that bank characteristics predict issuance...

We evaluate the role of insider ownership in shaping banks' equity issuances in response to the global financial crisis. We construct a unique dataset on the ownership structure of U.S. banks and their equity issuances and discover that greater insider ownership leads to less equity issuances....

Using a large sample of U.S. firms during 1987–2011, we find robust evidence that the issuance of seasoned equity is associated with abnormally high future stock price crash risk. The association between seasoned equity offerings and crash risk is stronger among offerings that involve the sale...