We analyze a firm's choice between dividend payments and stock repurchases under heterogeneous beliefs and the subsequent long-term stock return performance of firms adopting the two forms of payout. Firm insiders, owning a certain fraction of its equity, choose between paying out its cash...

We study an environment with short sale constraints and heterogeneous beliefs among outsiders and between insiders and outsiders. Firm insiders choose between equity, debt, and convertible debt to raise external financing. We analyze two settings: one where heterogeneous beliefs is the only...

Whether higher idiosyncratic return volatility means more or less informative stock prices is an ongoing debate. All the existing literature relies on cross-sectional evidence, which makes it hard to isolate the effects of price informativeness on idiosyncratic volatility from other effects. I...

Whether higher idiosyncratic return volatility means more or less informative stock prices is an ongoing debate. All the existing literature relies on cross-sectional evidence, which makes it hard to isolate the effects of price informativeness on idiosyncratic volatility from other effects. I...