We study the stock market reaction to announcements of global green vehicle innovation over a 14-year time span (1996 to 2009) using the event study methodology. We document that the stock market generally reacts positively to automakers' announcements of environmental innovations, consistent...

Stock splits have been for a long time a puzzling phenomenon that can bear particular consequences for stock's liquidity as well as for a stock price. I perform an analysis of stock splits accomplished between 2000 and May 2011 inclusive by companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. I seek...

The world faces the arduous task of reining in pollution. The pursuit of development agenda fuels more pollution. The economic reforms of 1991 put the Indian automobile on a higher growth trajectory. The resultant increase in vehicular pollution drew the attention of the court of law and...