This article empirically examines the influence of the SEC's Rule 105, Regulation M, on informed trading and the information content of stock prices surrounding the offer day of a seasoned equity offering (SEO). The results of this study show that the constraints on short sales imposed by the...

This study examines whether disclosures of the terms of accounting-based debt covenants affect shareholder wealth. Specifically, I focus on market reaction at the time of the announcement of technical default. I find that firms that disclosed the terms of the covenants in prior Securities and...

Combining information from labor historians and using techniques from finance we analyze the strikes that labor historians have agreed are pivotal in American history' during the period 1925-1937. Using information we collected on strike dates and historical financial market stock price data we...

We present an alternative expectation formation mechanism that helps rationalize well known asset pricing anomalies, such as the predictability of excess returns, excess volatility, and the equity-premium puzzle. As with rational expectations (RE), the expectation formation mechanism we consider...

This paper is an investigation into the determinants of asymmetries in stock returns. We develop a series of cross-sectional regression specifications which attempt to forecast skewness in the daily returns of individual stocks. Negative skewness is most pronounced in stocks that have...

Since 1968, the ratio of stock market capitalization to GDP has varied by a factor of 5. In 1972, the ratio stood at above unity, but by 1974, it had fallen to 0.45 where it stayed for the next decade. It then began a steady climb, and today it stands above 2. We argue that the IT revolution was...