Investors appear to respond to both an investment-opportunity signal and a valuation signal when an equity offering is announced or canceled. While prices fall in response to equity offers and rise when offers are withdrawn, the price changes are greater for offers used to reduce debt than for...

The objective of this paper is to extend prior research into the relationship between ownership and performance while controlling for the known market anomalies of firm size and earnings to price. The empirical results do support recent works indicating a positive relationship between the degree...

The excess returns associated with repurchase announcements are viewed largely as a reaction to management's statement that the firm's shares are underpriced; management's signal provides new information that enhances the firm's market value. Although earlier studies have found the excess return to...

This paper attempts to identify some of the factors that help explain the losses experienced by S&Ls during the 1980s. Texas institutions are the focus of this study because they account for over half of the total failure costs incurred for the entire industry during the 1980s. Differences in...