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reputation effects induces strategic behaviour. The results show that overestimating the quality of a project is an equilibrium … despite the presence of reputation costs. Counterintuitively, introducing competition leads to more lax requirements than in … the monopolistic case and reduces welfare as long as the reputation of the competitor is higher than that of the …
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The signaling hypothesis suggests that firms have incentives to underprice their initial public offerings (IPOs) to signal their quality to the outside investors and to issue seasoned equity (SEO) at more favorable terms. While the initial empirical evidence on the signaling hypothesis was weak,...
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This study uses a unique and extensive data set of over 28.2 million investors' applications to examine the theory of adverse selection under two distinct regulatory regimes (discretionary against mandatory clawback provision) in relation to IPO share allocation. Consistent with Rock's (1996)...
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The ad hoc Black-Scholes (AHBS) model is one of the most widely used option valuation models among practitioners models. The main contribution of this study is methodological. We have two main results: (1) we make the empirical observation that typically the call and put sneers are discontinuous...
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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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This study examines the impact of changes in data feed pricing schedules on the price discovery between competing venues, as espoused by Cespa & Foucault (2014). We utilize three exogenous events stemming from a staggered increase in the data feed price that transpired on the Chicago Mercantile...
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We propose a state-space modeling approach for decomposing trading volume into its liquidity-driven and information-driven components. Using a set of high-frequency S&P 500 stock data, we show that informed trading is linked with a reduction in volatility, illiquidity, and toxicity/adverse...
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Using several measures of information share, we examine price discovery across the inter-dealer and dealer-customer market tiers in the currencies market. In the spot market, the information share of the inter-dealer tier is higher than that of the dealer-customer one for non-financial sector...
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This paper finds that in Nasdaq Helsinki where brokers can voluntarily reveal or conceal identities, unsophisticated traders are less willing to trade after anonymous trades than non-anonymous trades. Using intraday order and trade data of large-cap stocks to which the voluntary anonymity model...
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Using daily abnormal currency returns for the universe of countries with flexible exchange rates, we document local currency depreciations ahead of unscheduled, public, sovereign debt downgrade announcements. Consistent with the private information hypothesis, the effect is stronger in lower...
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