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We examine the relationship between stock extreme illiquidity and the implied cost of capital for firms from 45 countries. We document robust evidence that firms whose stocks have a greater potential for extreme illiquidity realizations suffer from higher cost of capital. A one standard...
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From 1992 to 2011, average R2 increased from 0.17 to 0.47. During this period, passive financial institutions also grew their ownership from 30 to 50% of the market. Passive investors do not perform fundamental research nor trade around firm-specific news, thus reducing the firm-specific...
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productive investment and accordingly can rationalize a high corporate tax rate. The optimal corporate tax code in our setting … accumulation with a partial expensing of firm investment costs …
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I investigate the effect of different measures of corporate taxes on stock returns. The results support the partisan politics cycle effect on equity returns. A high minus low (Hi-Lo) portfolio sorted by (Total Corporate Taxes/Total Assets) has an annual return of +3.8% during Republican...
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We provide evidence that firms with weak investment opportunities (those whose current earnings justify a greater … valuation than firms with strong investment opportunities) signal their permanent earnings level through their dividends. In the … investment opportunities. Intertemporally, when aggregate investment opportunities are worse, firms convey more earnings …
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information absorption capacity by the investors on the IPOs impacts the investor's investment decisions and serves as a pre …-determinant for the successful IPO deal completion. We propose the Ledenyov theory on the origins of the IPO underpricing and long … investment strategies can only be selected by the investors with the highest information absorption capacity through the decision …
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In this paper, we investigate short sale constraints' impact on the incidence of extreme stock market movements. The latter can be used to proxy for the likelihood of tail events like crashes and bubbles in a market and, thus, is a crucial measure of stock market stability. Since crashes and...
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.S. stock prices. To overcome this bias, we propose a new identification method based on the "Impossible Trinity" theory which …
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This paper studies the price discovery dynamics in an order-driven market. Based on the transaction data on individual stocks, the paper focuses on the study of the monthly evolution of normalized volatility ratios on Euronext Paris for the CAC40 stocks before and after the implementation of the...
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This paper attempts to investigate the impact of credit information sharing on bank-specific stock price crash risk. Using a sample of 1,402 listed-banks in 55 countries for the period 2005-2013, we show that credit information sharing through public credit registries is negatively associated...
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