Asset markets are frequently restructured through mergers, acquisitions, and securitization. Corporate restructuring activities reallocate assets across firms. The cumulative magnitude of corporate restructuring deals is so significant and durable at the macro level that they can have the...

Post-earnings-announcement drift (PEAD) is one of the most solidly documented asset pricing anomalies. We use the controlled conditions of an experimental lab to investigate whether earnings autocorrelation is the driving cause of this anomaly. We observe PEAD in settings with uncorrelated and...